{"id":1452,"date":"2013-06-28T23:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T06:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2016-01-23T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T07:40:11","slug":"midway-on-the-trees-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"Midway on the trees painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery37\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-3 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8550.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8550.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"395\" alt=\"Midway through the painting, and I&#039;m starting to enjoy the process.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8550.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8550-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8551_1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8551_1-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"I love my paper scraps!\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8551_1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8551_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8551_1-365x365.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8552_1-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8552_1-1-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Once this dries I&#039;m going to work on the trees and distressing the water and sky a little bit.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8552_1-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8552_1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8552_1-1-365x365.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8560.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8560-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"My little watcher is back.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8560-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8560-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8563_1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8563_1-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Meanwhile, in my studio, which happens to be our kitchen and living room...\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8563_1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8563_1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8554.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8554-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"My husband has also been creative today, baking challah bread.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8554-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mg_8554-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>After a few days away, I was ready to continue work on the painting. I had done several layers of background colour and washes, and kind of hated it. Sometimes when I am working on a painting, I can get a little bit dramatic. Like bipolar. I despised the painting. But after starting to paint over the whole thing with white and then wiping it back off with a rag, it looked perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I built a city on the far shore out of brightly coloured scraps of paper that I keep for the purpose. A collection of old papers from my great grandparents house, painted papers from art school, paper I found blowing around on the sidewalk when I lived in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once this dries I&#8217;m going to work on the trees and distressing the water and sky a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few days away, I was ready to continue work on the painting. I had done several layers of background colour and washes, and kind of hated it. Sometimes when I am working on a painting, I can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1452\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[69,254,335,477,582,639,722],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-acrylic","tag-challah-bread","tag-creative-process","tag-gesso","tag-landscape","tag-mixed-media-painting","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}