{"id":371,"date":"2014-05-24T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephen-martyn.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2014-05-24T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T18:18:00","slug":"more-on-the-great-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/new-paintings\/more-on-the-great-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Great Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of posts ago I showed a sketch that I made while walking on the Great Wall of China, during our trip there in April. Now, I have been busy in the studio and have been tackling a watercolour of the Great Wall, based on my sketches and photographs.<figure id=\"attachment_372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/great_wall_china_painting_1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/new-paintings\/more-on-the-great-wall\/attachment\/great_wall_china_painting_1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/great_wall_china_painting_1.jpg?fit=400%2C263&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,263\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"great_wall_china_painting_1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Great Wall of China at Jinshaling. Watercolour 50cms x 30cms.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/great_wall_china_painting_1.jpg?fit=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/great_wall_china_painting_1.jpg?fit=400%2C263&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stephen-martyn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/great_wall_china_painting_1-300x197.jpg?resize=300%2C197\" alt=\"watercolour painting of the great wall of china\" title=\"great_wall_china_painting_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/great_wall_china_painting_1.jpg?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/great_wall_china_painting_1.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Wall of China at Jinshaling. Watercolour 50cms x 30cms.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a big painting, on a half-imperial (22ins. x 15ins.) sheet of Waterford 300lb rough paper. I completed it in one session, which is unusual for me, but this was one of those works that seemed to <em>want<\/em> to be painted, so it was a relatively easy couple of hours work. Great Wall of China near Jinshaling will be shown at my solo exhibition at King&#8217;s Lynn Arts Centre, starting on Saturday 7th June and continuing until the 21st June. I hope you can find the opportunity to call in and have a look at what I&#8217;ve been doing.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is Dersingham Open Gardens and the studio is open as part of the Dersingham Art Trail. Not a good day for the weather today, wet and very few visitors braving the elements, but that has given me the chance to do some painting. I&#8217;ve been working on some oil paintings today, and I will let you have a look at the results soon. Meanwhile you are very welcome at the studio during the remainder of the Bank Holiday weekend &#8211; see my contact page for the location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of posts ago I showed a sketch that I made while walking on the Great Wall of China, during our trip there in April. Now, I have been busy in the studio and have been tackling a watercolour of the Great Wall, based on my sketches and photographs. It&#8217;s quite a big painting, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/new-paintings\/more-on-the-great-wall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on the Great Wall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-paintings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72Akd-5Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}