{"id":403,"date":"2010-08-24T19:05:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:44:28","slug":"the-artists-eye-midtones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-midtones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist&#8217;s eye &#8211; Midtones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-midtones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-404\" title=\"the-artists-eye-midtones\" src=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-midtones.jpg\" alt=\"The Artist's Eye - Midtones\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-midtones.jpg 500w, http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-midtones-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While my dark contrasts are still wet, I like to move right into the midtone values. This allows me to move the oil paint around and blend more easily, so I can keep the structure of the different elements in check.<\/p>\n<p>I am still using filbert brushes (as large as possible) for these initial stages of the painting process. I am always anxious to pick up the smaller brushes to begin my favorite part of each painting&#8230; the details. But it is important that I restrain myself, while I am fine-tuning the blocks of values, colors and structure.<\/p>\n<p>I will let this layer cure to a firm enough surface to withstand the scrumbling and glazing that will come next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 While my dark contrasts are still wet, I like to move right into the midtone values. This allows me to move the oil paint around and blend more easily, so I can keep the structure of the different elements in check. I am still using filbert brushes (as large as possible) for these initial &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-midtones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-making-of-paintings","category-the-artists-eye-painting-by-bjdecastro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}