{"id":355,"date":"2013-06-12T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/blog2013\/06\/12\/week-twenty-four-think-of-a-number\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T02:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T02:12:30","slug":"week-twenty-four-think-of-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Week Twenty Four &#8211; Think of a Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">  <\/font>Bit of an experiment this week. Whenever I paint portraits I outline areas of colour. Before I apply any paint the picture looks like a complicated paint by numbers but without the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>So this week I&#8217;ve painted a &quot;paint by numbers&quot;\u009d without the numbers. That is I&#8217;ve blocked in some areas and purposely applied flat washes of the same colours to different parts of the picture. In fact I&quot;ve used eleven colours in all, and because they are water colours and near impossible to mix to the same colour again, I painted each &quot;\u02dcnumber&quot; at the same time and all in one sitting.<\/p>\n<p>Stand back (or shrink the picture) to get the best effect. I quite like it and might paint a few more piccies through the year in the same style.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NumberPainting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"600\" id=\"image354\" alt=\"Number Painting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NumberPainting.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by\/3.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of an experiment this week. Whenever I paint portraits I outline areas of colour. Before I apply any paint the picture looks like a complicated paint by numbers but without the numbers. So this week I&#8217;ve painted a &quot;paint by numbers&quot;\u009d without the numbers. That is I&#8217;ve blocked in some areas and purposely applied &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/?p=355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week Twenty Four &#8211; Think of a Number&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kildrago.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}