{"id":2440,"date":"2013-02-12T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2013-08-15T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T17:24:20","slug":"painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/brushes.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/brushes-sm.jpg\" title=\"Palette and brushes\" alt=\"Palette and brushes\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Palette, Rags and Brushes<\/h5>\n<p>I\u2019ve decided to get serious about my painting and since it has been so long since I\u2019ve worked with oils, I\u2019m taking a class at  Woodmere. The class I signed up for was canceled and I was offered this one which is turning out for the best. The instructor is having me drop back and copy the work of other artists to practice skills etc. And while I\u2019m chaffing at the bit to jump right in, I can see my work getting better. It forces me to slow down and think about the decisions others made when they painted their originals\u2014how they handled the paint, depth, color etc. Things I know in my head but my hands don\u2019t necessarily do what I want the first go. I\u2019m working with landscapes and looking forward to applying what I\u2019m learning to my own work. I\u2019m excited and anxious about this which is a good place to be.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/painting-spring-2013\/\">Some paintings from workshop.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palette, Rags and Brushes I\u2019ve decided to get serious about my painting and since it has been so long since I\u2019ve worked with oils, I\u2019m taking a class at Woodmere. The class I signed up for was canceled and I was offered this one which is turning out for the best. The instructor is having&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/painting\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}