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<\/a>Now, there are various resonances drawing me to paint this scene.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a lookout place in Lisbon where people gathered to enjoy the Spring weather and the view over the river Tagus.\u00a0 We first came upon it at dusk with a clear sky, and it reminded me of Alma-Tadema’s paintings, and of the scene in Kenneth Branaugh’s “Much Ado” when the soldiers, returning triumphant at dusk, strip off and plunge into pools that were surrounded by marble pillars.\u00a0 But my camera failed me – or rather I failed it, as it’s a new one I don’t understand yet.\u00a0 We returned a few days later in different weather conditions but I was sure a photo would help me revive the memory.<\/p>\nI planned a varied wash over the whole page, using\u00a0 Indian Yellow and Permanent Rose,\u00a0 to re-create the golden evening, then the figures and superstructure were laid in (dilute Ultramarine Blue). \u00a0 These blue areas mark out those parts that I will continue to refine.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We looked at how few colours were needed to make many other ones last week.\u00a0 Now I want to build on that to work out how colour choice creates atmosphere.\u00a0 This is my source. Now, there are various resonances drawing me to paint this scene.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a lookout place in Lisbon where people gathered to … Continue reading “Atmosphere”<\/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\/942"}],"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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The figures are in strong silhouette.\u00a0 Next,\u00a0 I need to decide how dark the light areas in shadow should be in relation to the people.\u00a0 As you can see, I have begun to make such judgements, though as yet no modelling is defined.\u00a0 It’s early days, but the atmosphere is beginning to appear.\u00a0 The image is too clear cut as yet,\u00a0 – more thought about shade and deep shadow,\u00a0 maybe a cloud or two? \u00a0 If I\u00a0 do more work on the painting this week …..<\/p>\n