{"id":499,"date":"2014-05-06T18:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2021-09-16T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T09:42:27","slug":"art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/?page_id=499","title":{"rendered":"Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I decided several years ago that I needed to broaden my\u00a0narrow technical based interests to encompass art in some form.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Digital Imagery<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As luck would have it my local college was offering a course on Creative Digital Design. It seemed to me that this would fit very well with my interest in computing and so I joined the course, picking up City and Guilds Certificates in &#8220;Basic and Advanced Digital Design&#8221; on the way. Over the \u00a0two years I gradually started to see things from an entirely different perspective as well as mastering an ability to manipulate, design and create \u00a0composite images &#8211; a relatively modern art form.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_490\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/after-lowry_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-490\" class=\"wp-image-490 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/after-lowry_small-157x300.jpg\" alt=\"after lowry_small\" width=\"157\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/after-lowry_small-157x300.jpg 157w, https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/after-lowry_small.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After Lowry<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_491\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shoe-compo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-491\" class=\"wp-image-491 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shoe-compo-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"shoe compo\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shoe-compo-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shoe-compo-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shoe-compo-435x300.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Formula Shoe Grand Prix Racing<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The two images illustrate the type of things I like to create<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Water Colour Painting<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As a\u00a0walker I have always liked watercolour paintings of landscapes, particularly mountain scenes and am a great admirer of the artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbellamy.co.uk\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> David Bellamy<\/a>. It seems to me that water colour paintings capture the &#8220;atmosphere&#8221; of a scene better than any other medium.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_513\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Aphitheatre-Butress-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-513\" class=\"wp-image-513 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Aphitheatre-Butress-copy-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Aphitheatre Butress copy\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Aphitheatre-Butress-copy-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Aphitheatre-Butress-copy.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amphitheatre Buttress in Snowdonia<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Its strange the way things work out and whilst on the above course I met my first art teacher, Sue Williams, who suggested that maybe I should try my hand at water colour painting. I have\u00a0 been painting for several years now and am now starting to paint my own mountain and other water colour paintings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_514\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/autumn-woods-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"wp-image-514 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/autumn-woods-copy-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"autumn woods copy\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/autumn-woods-copy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/autumn-woods-copy.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Scene in a Local Wood<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I recognise that I have still a long way to go and \u00a0really need to practice a lot more but I am thoroughly enjoying the hobby and the people who I meet.\u00a0 These are just two examples of my work which I recently exhibited. Visit the Paintings Page to see more<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">As LS Lowry once said <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">&#8221; I am not an artist but a man who paints&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">which just about sums me up<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/after-lowry_small.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided several years ago that I needed to broaden my\u00a0narrow technical based interests to encompass art in some form. Digital Imagery As luck would have it my local college was offering a course on Creative Digital Design. It seemed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/?page_id=499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mysite.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}