{"id":956,"date":"2019-04-04T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=956"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T08:19:56","slug":"fruit-joined-up-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Fruit &#8211; joined up painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier on we saw what painting all shadowed areas in Ultramarine Blue could do to simplify painting even a complex picture (Light and Shade again &#8211; March 7th 2019).\u00a0 This week we looked at another way into a painting by unifying the objects using a pale wash of Raw Sienna.\u00a0 We were using fruit, so Raw Sienna is a good choice.\u00a0 So much fruit has a yellow based hue, and it goes happily under other yellows, reds and blues, sometimes enhancing, sometimes creating secondary colours.\u00a0 Above all, it creates unity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Fruit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-958\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Fruit-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Fruit-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Fruit-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Fruit.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 85vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>The Raw Sienna wash swept (or crawled, depending on confidence!) over the fruit excepting only the strong highlights .\u00a0 Next we washed in the appropriate colours of the given fruit, stopping short of those highlights, so that the previous wash acted a transition between the two washes. Shadows help the illusion of the third dimension, and you are now ready to titivate, or not, as your mood takes you.\u00a0 Simples!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier on we saw what painting all shadowed areas in Ultramarine Blue could do to simplify painting even a complex picture (Light and Shade again &#8211; March 7th 2019).\u00a0 This week we looked at another way into a painting by unifying the objects using a pale wash of Raw Sienna.\u00a0 We were using fruit, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fruit &#8211; joined up painting&#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\/956"}],"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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}