{"id":659,"date":"2012-03-08T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2012-03-08T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:45:32","slug":"ranchita-arroyo-grande-morning-middle-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande-morning-middle-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranchita Arroyo Grande Morning – Middle Values"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ranchita<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Next I start working on the middle values.<\/p>\n

First is the background.\u00c2\u00a0 I pull out my number 1 filberts, rounds and flats to put in the shapes.<\/p>\n

Working back to front, I move toward the middle ground and then lay in the first layers of the pasture.\u00c2\u00a0 As I move forward…the brushes get bigger.<\/p>\n

\"Ranchita<\/a><\/p>\n

After I get the middle and foreground covered, I move back to the background to finish the details.\u00c2\u00a0 I finished the out-building and fencing there.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t start the oak tree canopy, until the background is finished.<\/p>\n

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\"Ranchita<\/a><\/p>\n

Next I put the first coat of paint on the gate and foreground fencing.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I also layed in the first grapevine leaves on the top of the butterfly gate.\u00c2\u00a0 These strokes were thick and free-spirited.\u00c2\u00a0 There is already a couple layers of paint on the pasture behind the leaves and since these will be\u00c2\u00a0very detailed at the end, I used more of a 3d modeling effect with my brushwork to make them pop out at the viewer.<\/p>\n

The painting starts looking a little flat right about now, but that’s ok.\u00c2\u00a0 In the final stages of painting, I will be putting in the darkest darks and highlights to accent the details and make it come alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0Next I start working on the middle values. First is the background.\u00c2\u00a0 I pull out my number 1 filberts, rounds and flats to put in the shapes. Working back to front, I move toward the middle ground and then lay in the first layers of the pasture.\u00c2\u00a0 As I move forward…the brushes get bigger. After … 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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranchita-arroyo-grande-by-artist-bjdecastro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}