{"id":408,"date":"2010-08-26T19:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T03:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:44:28","slug":"the-artists-eye-large-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-large-details\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist&#8217;s Eye &#8211; large details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-mirrorcheck.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-lgdetails.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-407\" title=\"The Artist's Eye - lg details\" src=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-lgdetails.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-lgdetails.jpg 500w, http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-lgdetails-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I set my larger brushes aside and move to smaller sized rounds for adding and blending the initial detail work. Changes are subtle as I move all around the canvas correcting color, shapes and values.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"the-artists-eye-mirrorcheck\" src=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-mirrorcheck.jpg\" alt=\"The Artists Eye mirror check\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My easel is setup next to a closet with mirrored doors, so as I work I can view my progress in reverse. When artwork is viewed in a mirror, it tricks the eyes and helps you to see corrections you need to make throughout the creative process.<\/p>\n<p>Research and reference materials for my paintings come in different forms. I may take many photos of my subject (as many as 50) and use my camera as a sketch pad framing the perfect piece. I do thumbnail sketches and paintings; or I occasionally paint &#8216;en plein air&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another trick I use, when painting away from the studio, is to take a picture of my work in progress and &#8216;flip&#8217; the image in my phone, camera or laptop software. This serves up the same result as in this &#8216;mirror&#8217; pic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set my larger brushes aside and move to smaller sized rounds for adding and blending the initial detail work. Changes are subtle as I move all around the canvas correcting color, shapes and values. My easel is setup next to a closet with mirrored doors, so as I work I can view my progress &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-large-details\/\">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-408","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\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}