{"id":113,"date":"2010-05-04T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T08:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=113"},"modified":"2010-04-25T21:26:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T20:26:57","slug":"dreams-of-amarna-working-on-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/04\/dreams-of-amarna-working-on-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Amarna &#8211; Working on ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_295\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/paintings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295\" class=\"size-full wp-image-295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/paintings.jpg\" alt=\"Collage of painted sketches\" width=\"400\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collage of painted sketches for the Dreams of Amarna project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m still trying to think about and plan what to include,\u00a0 so I have been taking some of the photographs, and trying to produce paintings or drawings based on them.<\/p>\n<p>This is serving a twofold purpose, as I have been developing my understanding of techniques, as well as learning how to distil the detail in the photographs. If it is important to simplify the sources in painting, it is more important in embroidery, where the effects created through stitch choice, thread choice, or the decision to raise the surface with padding also contribute to the final result.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings aren\u2019t particularly good, but that really isn\u2019t the point of them, so I don\u2019t mind. They aren\u2019t finished pieces &#8211; I simply want to force myself to look at the photographic sources with an analytical eye. I hope then that it will come more naturally each time I find a bit I want to work on and embroider.<\/p>\n<p>In fact as I look at this collage of paintings, I&#8217;m quite pleased. At least I have shown an appreciation of where the darks and the lights need to be, and those are what make a picture easy to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still trying to think about and plan what to include,\u00a0 so I have been taking some of the photographs, and trying to produce paintings or drawings based on them. This is serving a twofold purpose, as I have been developing my understanding of techniques, as well as learning how to distil the detail in&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/04\/dreams-of-amarna-working-on-ideas\/\">Continue Reading Dreams of Amarna &#8211; Working on ideas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[155,11],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","category-large-embroidery-projects","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-research","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}