{"id":920,"date":"2019-02-21T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=920"},"modified":"2019-02-18T08:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:35:23","slug":"back-to-basics-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Back to basics continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consolidation is the name of the game, using recently learnt skills to create a painting. I suggested a simple theme, distant hills, a lake, and a tree in the foreground. There are some new ideas here of course, making picture for a start!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tree-and-lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-922\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tree-and-lake-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tree-and-lake-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tree-and-lake-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tree-and-lake.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Wetting the shape, then introducing colour is a good way of painting a very simple sky. \u00a0 While that was drying I mixed a dull green, Ultramarine Blue and Indian Yellow, for the hills to push them back suggesting distance.\u00a0 It a strange fact that a warm blue and a warm yellow make a dull green, &#8211; well not really strange in you think about it because they both lean very slightly towards the red\u00a0 thus the mix includes the three primary colours.\u00a0 The trick in painting these distant hills is to start with the whole body of the brush level with the top of the hill, then draw the paint down, so a more interesting, believable edge is achieved.\u00a0 A sweep of the brush following the hill top is just too smooth.\u00a0 Now, watch the paint dry, and just as it loses the shine and turns dull,\u00a0 touch in the trees edging the lake with darker green \u00a0 (more pigment, less water).<\/p>\n<p>The back of the lake is a sweep of the brush for this time we need a reasonably straight edge, while the front is dry brushed.\u00a0 The foreground is begun with a wash of Raw Sienna, then titivated to suggest fallen leaves, rocks, etc., and a truly dark mix of Ultramarine and Burnt Sienna define the tree trunk and pushed the hills further away.\u00a0 The leaves of that tree are tickled in with the point of the brush.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not thrilled with the result, but I&#8217;m not ashamed of it either.\u00a0 Maybe my painter&#8217;s block of the last four months is finally cracking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consolidation is the name of the game, using recently learnt skills to create a painting. I suggested a simple theme, distant hills, a lake, and a tree in the foreground. There are some new ideas here of course, making picture for a start! Wetting the shape, then introducing colour is a good way of painting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back to basics continued&#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\/920"}],"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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}