{"id":685,"date":"2002-11-01T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/?p=685"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:10:23","slug":"loosen-up-with-a-30-minute-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/2002\/11\/01\/loosen-up-with-a-30-minute-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Loosen up with a 30-minute exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dividing line between something being just right and being over-worked is perilously narrow. The danger of overworking a painting is one of the most common pitfalls the student of watercolour has to come to terms with. One of the best ways to overcome this is to err on the side of understatement &#8211; deliberately set out to underwork your painting. For some, I know, this is easier said than done, so try this loosening-up exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Give yourself a time-limit of, say, 30 minutes. If you are really uncomfortable with that, try with a 60-minute exercise one day, a 45-minute exercise the next, and 30-minutes the day after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be strict with yourself. If necessary, set a timer to go off in half an hour and set to work. When that half-hour is up, stop working immediately and put your painting away somewhere, preferably out of sight. Treat yourself to a cup of tea or a night on the town, and don&#8217;t look at your hard work for 24 hours (no peeking!) You just might surprise yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dividing line between something being just right and being over-worked is perilously narrow. The danger of overworking a painting is one of the most common pitfalls the student of watercolour has to come to terms with. One of the best ways to overcome this is to err on the side of understatement &#8211; deliberately set out to underwork your&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","category-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}