{"id":4677,"date":"2011-09-30T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/further-experiments-in-ink-and-bleach-these\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:30:27","slug":"further-experiments-in-ink-and-bleach-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/further-experiments-in-ink-and-bleach-these\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4677 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/further-experiments-in-ink-and-bleach-these\/attachment\/4678\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao7_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao7_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao7_r1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao7_r1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/further-experiments-in-ink-and-bleach-these\/attachment\/4679\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/further-experiments-in-ink-and-bleach-these\/attachment\/4680\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao2_r2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao2_r2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao2_r2_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lsclf7MwPP1qcztaao2_r2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Further experiments in ink and bleach. These Winsor &amp; Newton colours are all obnoxiously bright to begin with, and the effect of the bleach varies: it knocks a garish aquamarine back to a nice, faded denim colour but it turns emerald ink into a hideous acid green. I tried to subdue this figure with a wash of purple but I think it&rsquo;s less interesting as well as less offensive now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m having enormous trouble with colour in general lately. I can&rsquo;t get colours to chime. I&rsquo;ll either have to start limiting my palette again or just be more considered in my approach and plan in advance how I want different parts of a painting to interact. Booooo-ring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ink, bleach, watercolour &amp; pencils on Bockingford paper, approx 12&quot;x6&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further experiments in ink and bleach. These Winsor &amp; Newton colours are all obnoxiously bright to begin with, and the effect of the bleach varies: it knocks a garish aquamarine back to a nice, faded denim colour but it turns emerald ink into a hideous acid green. I tried to subdue this figure with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/further-experiments-in-ink-and-bleach-these\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[384,46,72,48,170,171],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anatomy","tag-drawing","tag-figure","tag-figure-study","tag-ink","tag-watercolour","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}