{"id":1470,"date":"2016-01-21T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T14:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T14:29:30","slug":"benefiting-from-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/benefiting-from-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefiting from Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been working with\u00a0“local value” this week\u00a0in an effort to improve the structural framework of my compositions, textile and otherwise. Practicing with watercolor and\u00a0sticking to just one color has made it possible to\u00a0knock out a handful of studies\u00a0in a relatively short period of time.<\/p>\n

\"Value1Web\"

Jamie’s Pitcher \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a9 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the things I’ve noticed is\u00a0that the successive flat layers of paint allow me to think abstractly in addition to building up forms within the image. An unexpected but gratifying side benefit of this aspect of the process is heightening my awareness of the interaction between the image and the surface – a characteristic I am continually working to emphasize.<\/p>\n

\"Value2Web\"

Jamie’s Pitcher<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a9 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a good reminder that there’s a lot to be gained from\u00a0stripping back to fundamentals.<\/p>\n

\"Value3Web\"

Jamie’s Pitcher<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a9Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Aside from working with values this week, I also\u00a0finally finished overhauling my website<\/a>. What a relief to check off that chore\u00a0and to get away from so\u00a0many\u00a0hours tied to\u00a0my laptop! The big decision was to move\u00a0from iWeb to Weebly,<\/a>\u00a0an incredibly user-friendly platform with plenty of flexibility and a very low learning curve. Most importantly, my images are now tack-sharp. I’m not sure why it was, but the look of\u00a0my pictures through\u00a0iWeb always seemed\u00a0to suggest my glasses needed cleaning when\u00a0I knew the trouble wasn’t with the images themselves. After some concentrated\u00a0web-searching I learned that it’s a problem a lot of people using iWeb have struggled to overcome. Since iWeb has long been on its way out anyway, it was a no-brainer to switch and I’m more than happy with my decision.<\/p>\n

\"Value4Web\"

Jamie’s<\/strong> Pitcher \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a9 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

To take it one step farther, I have an\u00a0awesome tip to offer you that I learned during\u00a0the overhaul process. Check out Compressnow.com<\/a> — it’s a free site that will reduce your images (max 9MB) by whatever percentage you want, compressing them quickly and easily with no noticeable degradation in quality. For example, I converted my mostly over-6MB images to a\u00a0500-300kb range.<\/p>\n

\"Value5Web\"

Jamie’s Pitcher<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a9 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Overall, a pretty productive week!<\/p>\n

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I have been working with\u00a0“local value” this week\u00a0in an effort to improve the structural framework of my compositions, textile and otherwise. Practicing with watercolor and\u00a0sticking to just one color has made it possible to\u00a0knock out a handful of studies\u00a0in a relatively short period of time. One of the things I’ve noticed is\u00a0that the successive flat […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[164,165,166,162,163],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","tag-compressnow","tag-fundamentals","tag-images","tag-values","tag-weebly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kO5z-nI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}