{"id":983,"date":"2019-05-09T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=983"},"modified":"2019-05-09T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:05:15","slug":"flowers-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Flowers again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever tried to finish a painting from a photograph, that you started live?\u00a0 Most of my paintings to date have been from photographs, partly from necessity, and partly, (as I have recently discovered) from a lack of faith in my drawing abilities, so I haven&#8217;t needed to cope with this.\u00a0 It hadn&#8217;t occurred to me that the transition required a new set of skills.<\/p>\n<p>In using a photograph, I found the background, even though I wasn&#8217;t using it,\u00a0 confused the flower shapes in a way I hadn&#8217;t noticed when painting from life.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t happen when I start with a photo, probably because I have already mentally\u00a0 simplified the image at the outset.\u00a0 Then, there was the colour change.\u00a0 I &#8220;know&#8221; my printer produces blued images, but as I rarely use the photo as more than an initial sketch,\u00a0 I was not awake to the change.\u00a0 My first attempts to complete the painting were more pink than the initial work.<\/p>\n<p>If at first you don&#8217;t succeed &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Flowers02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-985\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Flowers02-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Flowers02-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Flowers02-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Flowers02-709x1024.jpg 709w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Flowers02.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 85vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>and I can&#8217;t claim this as success.\u00a0 How wooden and solid the additions seem!\u00a0 There is none of the airy, &#8220;leap of the page&#8221; lightness about them.\u00a0 There is a lesson here if I can only fathom it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever tried to finish a painting from a photograph, that you started live?\u00a0 Most of my paintings to date have been from photographs, partly from necessity, and partly, (as I have recently discovered) from a lack of faith in my drawing abilities, so I haven&#8217;t needed to cope with this.\u00a0 It hadn&#8217;t occurred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flowers again&#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\/983"}],"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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}