{"id":847,"date":"2018-11-01T09:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=847"},"modified":"2018-11-01T09:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:25:43","slug":"is-this-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Is this progress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Portrait03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-849\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Portrait03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Portrait03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Portrait03-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Portrait03-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 85vw, 386px\" \/><\/a>Well, progress of a kind.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told he looks like a Roman emperor, and I think she now looks like a Red Indian, but at least they both pass as people.<\/p>\n<p>As far as my brief is concerned, it is a bit like the curate&#8217;s egg.\u00a0 There are places where the textures are driven by the underlying collage, though overall there is too much reliance on paint.\u00a0 They both look rather menacing too, which was neither the original intention nor in character.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m considering whether I can learn any more from this experiment.\u00a0 Maybe portraits were beyond my capabilities at this stage, given that I have not succeeded in painting a satisfactory portrait in oils as yet (much greater success rate in pastel) and a landscape or townscape would have provided\u00a0 a better result.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sufficiently intrigued to try the technique again, to see if I can take it past the\u00a0 stage of working with someone else&#8217;s methods into something I can acknowledge as my own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, progress of a kind.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told he looks like a Roman emperor, and I think she now looks like a Red Indian, but at least they both pass as people. As far as my brief is concerned, it is a bit like the curate&#8217;s egg.\u00a0 There are places where the textures are driven by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is this progress?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}