{"id":994,"date":"2019-05-23T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=994"},"modified":"2019-05-22T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:02:44","slug":"the-zoo-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"The Zoo again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were far more children there today than I expected mid-week, but I had forgotten about school parties.\u00a0 It made seeing\u00a0 the more popular animals rather\u00a0 a more crowded experience.<\/p>\n<p>I had taken a few pastels this time to see if it made capturing movement easier.\u00a0 Certainly, whole body shapes were done in moments.\u00a0 Thinking about it in the quiet of the evening, the matter of scale is important &#8211; using pastels, I should have attempted bigger shapes, easily possible, and also easier to add form and some detail.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My best attempts were a 3 minute elephant and\u00a0 a two minute buffalo.\u00a0 Taken as animal sketches, they were just about adequate, but I would have been happier with a larger 10 to 15 minute effort.\u00a0 So size in relation to medium was lesson number one today.<\/p>\n<p>From about 3.30 pm onwards, as the school trips and families went home to tea, the Zoo became quieter and the animals showed themselves more readily.\u00a0 Rhinos stood proud on top of the hill,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rhino-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-998\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rhino-1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rhino-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rhino-1-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rhino-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Crane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-999\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Crane-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Crane-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Crane-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Crane.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>an elegant crane paraded along the fence,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and the red panda had a good scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Red-Panda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-996\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Red-Panda-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Red-Panda-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Red-Panda-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Red-Panda.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Since I have a season ticket, my plan is to drop in about 3 pm occasionally and try for a larger, more careful drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were far more children there today than I expected mid-week, but I had forgotten about school parties.\u00a0 It made seeing\u00a0 the more popular animals rather\u00a0 a more crowded experience. I had taken a few pastels this time to see if it made capturing movement easier.\u00a0 Certainly, whole body shapes were done in moments.\u00a0 Thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Zoo 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\/994"}],"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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}