{"id":2615,"date":"2013-03-19T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:04:54","slug":"its-been-a-while-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/its-been-a-while-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"

For one reason or another I’ve not had chance to get the watercolours out for what feels like years, so I decided to make the effort and get my eye in again with a small practice piece. Now I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reference photographs which I take and file for just such occasions. Living where we do surrounded by such excellent scenery it would be difficult not to have a reasonable selection of reference images really. This is of course why I ended up painting something from a photograph taken by someone else \ud83d\ude42 I was sitting flipping through images on the screen looking for one to work from and I had Facebook open at the same time (as you do) and a photograph popped up and I thought to myself ‘hey, I’ll paint that…’ then I became distracted and did nothing about it for a week or so – it was too cold in the house for watercolours to dry in anything less than a day anyway. Eventually I printed out a reference image, put a few pencil marks on paper and started to paint, I was a little nervous, when I last painted it felt like there was a glimmer of understanding poking its way into my brain but would I get that glimmer again or would it be like starting from scratch again? Well, the first wash was a disaster, as I raced to correct it I started to relax, this was how I remembered watercolours to be, a race against time to stop it all going wrong \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So, this is based on a photograph by John Howe, I was going to add a wizard near the tree but in the end I just painted it without embellishment.<\/p>\n

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For one reason or another I’ve not had chance to get the watercolours out for what feels like years, so I decided to make the effort and get my eye in again with a small practice piece. Now I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reference photographs which I take and file for just such occasions. Living where we do surrounded by such excellent scenery it would be difficult not to have a reasonable selection of reference images really. This is of course why I ended up painting something…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44,54,31,129,269],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","tag-art","tag-john-howe","tag-painting","tag-tree","tag-watercolour"],"gutentor_comment":2,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}