{"id":11839,"date":"2019-04-30T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T08:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2019-04-08T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T16:55:50","slug":"watercolour-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/30\/watercolour-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolour investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AkhenatenCollage.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AkhenatenCollage-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"AkhenatenCollage\" class=\"wp-image-11836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AkhenatenCollage-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AkhenatenCollage-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AkhenatenCollage-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AkhenatenCollage.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Akhenaten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s more than one way of thinking about a project. I&#8217;m still trying to feel my way to an understanding of Akhenaten&#8217;s face, and this is one way of doing so. The purple one in the middle is the most recent, and most clearly shows the strong shape of the face. So I might be making progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/People.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/People-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"People\" class=\"wp-image-11838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/People-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/People-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/People-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/People.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>People<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the watercolours also give me a chance to show things that I&#8217;m not at all sure I want to attempt in embroidery. Of course, I&#8217;ve already done &#8220;Loading The Felucca&#8221;, which shows people, and the background of the second panel does too, but in all honesty, I think that difficult as they are, the watercolours were actually easier than the stitching!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Artefacts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Artefacts-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Artefacts\" class=\"wp-image-11837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Artefacts-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Artefacts-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Artefacts-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Artefacts.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Artefacts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The felucca, and the Hittite Amulet have both appeared in stitch already. I&#8217;d like to do more of the jewellery (I&#8217;ve got an assortment of goldwork supples to play with, after all!). I&#8217;m planning to do some more fresco fragments, and I&#8217;m sure another idea or two will occur to me soon!<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s more than one way of thinking about a project. I&#8217;m still trying to feel my way to an understanding of Akhenaten&#8217;s face, and this is one way of doing so. The purple one in the middle is the most recent, and most clearly shows the strong shape of the face. So I might be&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/30\/watercolour-investigations\/\">Continue Reading Watercolour investigations<\/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],"tags":[155,211],"class_list":["post-11839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-watercolour","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","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=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11842,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions\/11842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}