{"id":1743,"date":"2008-03-31T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/create\/2008\/03\/31\/face_and_figure_3\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T09:30:25","slug":"face_and_figure_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/03\/31\/face_and_figure_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Face and Figure Painting workshop &#8211; week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Third week of workshop and things are getting serious. This week is about direct color painting, without using a black and white version as a base.<\/p>\n<p>A few observations after completing the two required portraits for this week:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You have to block correct shades in key parts of painting and reuse from picking colors instead of going back to palette. Increases consistency of colors across painting.<br \/>\n&#8211; Again, brush choice is critical. As is calibration of tablet (firm tablet, flat brush with 40% opacity and 40% resat).<br \/>\n&#8211; Inject color from background in darker area of the portrait. Do not hesitate to inject bright colors in cheeks, nose and ears &#8211; we have a natural tendency to use muted tones.<br \/>\n&#8211; Pick one side for details (light or dark side) and improve details on that side only.<br \/>\n&#8211; Pay attention to structures in painting. Do not paint shaded areas in isolation. See the whole interaction between parts of the portrait,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third week of workshop and things are getting serious. This week is about direct color painting, without using a black and white version as a base. A few observations after completing the two required portraits for this week: &#8211; You have to block correct shades in key parts of painting and reuse from picking colors instead of going back to&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/03\/31\/face_and_figure_3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-workshop","tag-painting","post_format-post-format-gallery","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-s7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}