{"id":628,"date":"2011-04-26T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2018-12-14T13:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:18:58","slug":"above-el-capitan-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/above-el-capitan-vii\/","title":{"rendered":"Above El Capitan VII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some may remember late last year I was working on a large painting of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and posting the work as it developed.  (You can scroll back through this weblog and see the posts I made as the painting progressed.)  I was close to finished,  so stopped working on it for a few weeks and come back with a fresh eye.  Well, the weeks turned into months, and I am just now coming back to it.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days, I have painted all over the canvas, mainly lightening up the distant values as they were too dark.  I might lighten them up a bit more once the foreground is complete.  I also eliminated some of the clouds as they were over powering the rest of the painting.  I also slightly changed and worked on the foreground, with more work to do there.  It is getting close to finished.  Anybody have suggestions?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image627\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/aboveelcapitank.jpg\" alt=\"aboveelcapitank.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Here is a detail of part of the foreground.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image629\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/aboveelcapitanl.jpg\" alt=\"aboveelcapitanl.jpg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may remember late last year I was working on a large painting of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and posting the work as it developed. (You can scroll back through this weblog and see the posts I made as the painting progressed.) 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