{"id":4291,"date":"2018-01-22T17:25:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2018-01-22T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:29:51","slug":"watercolour-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/01\/22\/watercolour-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolour Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this picture on my Facebook page and was asked about the technique I&#8217;d used for watercolour &#8220;drawing&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Well,\u00a0 a good sable brush helps: it&#8217;s easier to draw with a brush than a pen as there is\u00a0less resistance from the paper.\u00a0 Another tip: if you are drawing plants it is best to make upward strokes as that is the way a plant grows, and use a full brush.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4290\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Thistle-Watercolour-drawing-William-Lonsdale-Artist.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle Watercolour drawing William Lonsdale Artist\" width=\"960\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Thistle-Watercolour-drawing-William-Lonsdale-Artist.jpg 960w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Thistle-Watercolour-drawing-William-Lonsdale-Artist-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Thistle-Watercolour-drawing-William-Lonsdale-Artist-768x590.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this picture on my Facebook page and was asked about the technique I&#8217;d used for watercolour &#8220;drawing&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Well,\u00a0 a good sable brush helps: it&#8217;s easier to draw with a brush than a pen as there is\u00a0less resistance from the paper.\u00a0 Another tip: if you are drawing plants it is best to make upward strokes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}