{"id":540,"date":"2013-08-08T01:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:10:16","slug":"watercolour-wednesday-rita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/watercolour-wednesday-rita\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolour Wednesday: Rita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some progress on my <a href=\"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/\">Decrypting Rita<\/a> fan-art, which I first <a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/fan-art-friday-decrypting-rita\/\">previewed<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naturale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"naturale\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naturale-221x300.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/edits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"edits\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/edits-221x300.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the left &#8211; the art as-scanned. On the right, I&#8217;ve experimented with digitally deepening some of the shadows. Not quite happy with things yet, but it&#8217;s late and time to head to bed.<\/p>\n<p>I was really not sure how I was going to tackle the colours for this one, considering the source material&#8217;s approach to colour!<\/p>\n<p>I just had to conquer my fears and dive into it. I got a chance to use some new brown ink (the result of forgetting to empty my wallet before entering an art store), which I&#8217;ve used in the shadows across all but Rita1. I was thinking it&#8217;d work well to unify the colours across the image but I decided not to use it with the blues.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon I&#8217;ll try out some more paintings with the new ink, might be good for some life drawing studies.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I need to work out how to get darker shadows with my watercolours. It&#8217;s been a problem in my last few paintings. Might just need to use black ink for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some progress on my Decrypting Rita fan-art, which I first previewed on Friday. On the left &#8211; the art as-scanned. On the right, I&#8217;ve experimented with digitally deepening some of the shadows. Not quite happy with things yet, but it&#8217;s late and time to head to bed. I was really not sure how I was &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/watercolour-wednesday-rita\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,10],"tags":[365,361,91,191],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-540","6":"format-standard","7":"category-comics-2","8":"category-watercolours","9":"post_tag-decrypting-rita","10":"post_tag-fanart","11":"post_tag-watercolour","12":"post_tag-webcomics"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}