{"id":890,"date":"2019-01-10T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=890"},"modified":"2019-01-10T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:27:22","slug":"more-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"More sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to circumstance, I have not raised a brush since the end of November.\u00a0 So I am using another painting from a few years ago as the subject for discussion this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sunshine-at-Erddig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sunshine-at-Erddig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sunshine-at-Erddig.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sunshine-at-Erddig-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sunshine-at-Erddig-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sunshine-at-Erddig-747x1024.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 85vw, 322px\" \/><\/a>This is another pastel &#8211; the drifts of colour are so appealing &#8211; of the ice house at Erddig, near Wrexham.\u00a0 The shadow of the building in the foreground and the building itself frame the sunlit decorative kiosk and garden, concentrating attention there.\u00a0 Most unusually for me, the focus is right in the centre of the painting.\u00a0 There are diagonals but they all lead to the centre, and it is only the strong verticals of the trees\u00a0 which encourage the eye to roam. \u00a0 When I painted it, I was not aware that a central focus is difficult to pull off!\u00a0 But I still think it is a satisfying composition, so my blissful innocence has not come back to haunt me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s painted on velour paper which takes colour easily and makes\u00a0 &#8220;lost and found&#8221; edges to easy to attain.\u00a0 The warm greens and reds near the little house\u00a0 ease out to the cooler greens, blues and browns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to circumstance, I have not raised a brush since the end of November.\u00a0 So I am using another painting from a few years ago as the subject for discussion this time. This is another pastel &#8211; the drifts of colour are so appealing &#8211; of the ice house at Erddig, near Wrexham.\u00a0 The shadow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More sunshine&#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\/890"}],"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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}