{"id":1955,"date":"2014-07-02T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2016-01-22T17:41:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T01:41:26","slug":"watercolour-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"Watercolour painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time I did a watercolour painting that didn&#8217;t involve collage, sewing, or other mixed media. I started watercolour when I was 18, and for a few years it was my only medium.<\/p>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery21\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-2 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-6 tcol-md-6 tcol-sm-6 tcol-xs-12 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-1.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"559\" alt=\"Steps 1 and 2 of watercolour \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ground and masking fluid\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-1-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-6 tcol-md-6 tcol-sm-6 tcol-xs-12 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-3-cat.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-3-cat.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"432\" alt=\"cat looking at watercolour painting  The cat watching paint dry with me. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of waiting with watercolour.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-3-cat.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-3-cat-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-6 tcol-md-6 tcol-sm-6 tcol-xs-12 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-2-600x600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Added more saturation to my ground, and started the grass with raw umber and a mossy green.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/June-29-watercolour-step-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-6 tcol-md-6 tcol-sm-6 tcol-xs-12 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/June-29-watercolour-step-4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/June-29-watercolour-step-4.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"564\" alt=\"Lots of grass. Now I just have to wait for the paper to dry (probably a day) before I try to remove the masking fluid and finish it up!\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/June-29-watercolour-step-4.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/June-29-watercolour-step-4-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/June-29-watercolour-step-4-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>I was stuck in traffic last week, and as usual I spent the time looking at nature along the side of the road. I noticed that the daisies were floating in areas of lighter grass than areas without daisies. As this pattern floated slowly past the window, I thought of doing a watercolour. This painting doesn&#8217;t really resemble the scene I was looking at very well, but here it is anyway. Not quite done yet though: have to let the paper dry thoroughly enough to remove the masking fluid, which is usually best left overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time I did a watercolour painting that didn&#8217;t involve collage, sewing, or other mixed media. I started watercolour when I was 18, and for a few years it was my only medium. I was stuck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1955\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[99,122,136,345,429,500,582,722,890,911,983,985],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-artwork","tag-daisies","tag-field","tag-grass","tag-landscape","tag-painting","tag-soil","tag-studio","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}