{"id":61,"date":"2020-12-01T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/?p=61"},"modified":"2022-01-28T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:49:13","slug":"light-foliage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/2020\/12\/01\/light-foliage\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Foliage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/202012.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/202012.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/202012-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>In both of these examples, I&#8217;ve used a light, weak wash to add a hint of foliage to the trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, it&#8217;s the little, subtle things that can make all the difference to a painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s common to think of trees in terms of either those in midsummer, bursting with full foliage, or as skeletal, winter bare trees, without a single leaf to be seen. But there is another state&#8230; a sort of a halfway house&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m talking, mainly of light, fresh new Spring foliage, but the technique is just as applicable to that period of time at the back end of Autumn, when, for some trees, only a light sprinkling of foliage remains. It can be a challenge to capture if you think only in terms of painting individual leaves, but not so much if you take a more simplified approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One way to approach the challenge is to apply your foliage using a dry-brush technique. The only potential problem with that is, because you are applying paint to dry paper, it will result in hard edges throughout. It&#8217;s also easy to overwork if all you&#8217;re after is a gentle, subtle result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My favourite method of painting spring foliage (and light autumn foliage &#8211; as seen in my recent &#8216;Brimham Rocks&#8217; video), is to apply it as a light wash, covering the general shape of where you want the leaves to be, but then softening it off with a damp brush, to reduce its prominence a little. If the result is looking too bright or dominant, then a gentle dab with a piece of tissue is generally enough to knock it back, and make it look more integral to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, it&#8217;s the little, subtle things that can make all the difference to a painting. It&#8217;s common to think of trees in terms of either those in midsummer, bursting with full foliage, or as skeletal, winter bare trees, without a single leaf to be seen. But there is another state&#8230; a sort of a halfway house&#8230; I&#8217;m talking, mainly of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techniques","category-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}