{"id":1125,"date":"2017-06-04T14:52:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2017-06-04T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:40:54","slug":"sunday-red-warmup-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2017\/06\/sunday-red-warmup-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Red: warmup sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warmup sketch with two reds&#8211;kermes (bugs) on the left, cinnabar hue (substitute for genuine mercury vermilion) on the right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always worried I&#8217;ll overshoot the mark and ruin a painting by overworking it, but I&#8217;m planning to do a second layer (glaze) on the cinnabar red and on the skin tones when this is fully dry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8340-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"714\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1126\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8340-717x1024.jpg 717w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8340-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8340-768x1097.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the \u202asecond layer of red, the homemade fake cinnabar looks much more like real vermilion (even showing some of the same tendency not so much to granulate as to clump&#8230;that&#8217;s a technical term, for sure). The next batch I make, I&#8217;ll use more pigment.<\/p>\n<p>I got the Stillman &#038; Birn Alpha paper VERY wet and it held up with minimal buckling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8345-e1496605071839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1133\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warmup sketch with two reds&#8211;kermes (bugs) on the left, cinnabar hue (substitute for genuine mercury vermilion) on the right. I&#8217;m always worried I&#8217;ll overshoot the mark and ruin a painting by overworking it, but I&#8217;m planning to do a second[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2017\/06\/sunday-red-warmup-sketch\/\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}