{"id":16,"date":"2026-08-21T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/carrying-colour-a-portrait-on-a-yellow-wall\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:15:00","slug":"carrying-colour-a-portrait-on-a-yellow-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/carrying-colour-a-portrait-on-a-yellow-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrying colour: a portrait on a yellow wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He did not want his face in the picture, so the basket became his face. Dyed feathers \u2014 pink, yellow, violet and a teal that almost disappears against the sky \u2014 piled high enough to hide him from the shoulders up, and a straw hat held low so the frame still has a person in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yellow is the hardest wall to shoot against. It bounces onto everything, and skin turns jaundiced in seconds. With no skin in view, that stopped being a problem and became the point: every colour in the basket is sharper for being on yellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A basket of dyed feathers, a yellow wall and a sitter who would rather not show his face. Sometimes the prop is the portrait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,15],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-design","tag-photography","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/daren-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}