{"id":634,"date":"2012-02-27T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:36:20","slug":"ranchita-arroyo-grande-morning-compositional-sketch-to-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2012\/02\/ranchita-arroyo-grande-morning-compositional-sketch-to-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranchita Arroyo Grande Morning – Compositional sketch to canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ranchita<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Starting a new piece is always exciting, but you can’t get your hands in the paint, until all the compositional details are worked out.<\/p>\n

This landscape was more of a portait of a property than anything else, so I had to be true to the elements in the piece.\u00c2\u00a0 But I did take artist license with illimination of many items on the property that were not vital to\u00c2\u00a0Ranchita’s identity and that would ‘clutter’ my composition.<\/p>\n

I also struggled a bit as to whether or not I wanted the 3rd horse…and where it should be placed.\u00c2\u00a0 So as I often do, I made a thumbnail clipping and moved it around the canvas stuck with tape.<\/p>\n

\"Ranchita<\/a>In these initial planning stages, I am building a\u00c2\u00a0map that I want you to use\u00c2\u00a0as your eyes travel around the painting. \u00c2\u00a0 If you have a poor map, then your viewer’s eyes are going to go left to right, by nature, and then be\u00c2\u00a0finished.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

To keep their eyes traveling in circles around each piece with gentle stops on my points of interest, I use composition, value changes and lighting.\u00c2\u00a0 I double-check it in my mirror to fool my own eye and then when I am happy…it’s time to get the brushes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0 Starting a new piece is always exciting, but you can’t get your hands in the paint, until all the compositional details are worked out. This landscape was more of a portait of a property than anything else, so I had to be true to the elements in the piece.\u00c2\u00a0 But I did take artist … Continue reading »<\/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":[18,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-making-of-paintings","category-ranchita-arroyo-grande-by-artist-bjdecastro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}