{"id":1602,"date":"2014-01-19T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2016-01-23T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T05:51:32","slug":"collage-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Collage series 2: Schoolyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1599\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-progress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1599 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-progress-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"collage\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-progress-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-progress.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Collage series 2: schoolyard (in progress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had the rare treat of picking up my young children from school on Friday, which inspired me to create this second collage on rag paper, called Schoolyard. I was also inspired by reading one of my favourite children&#8217;s books to my son by Ezra Jack Keats, &#8220;A Letter to Amy,&#8221; that day. <a href=\"http:\/\/theartofchildrenspicturebooks.blogspot.ca\/2011\/04\/letter-to-amy-by-ezra-jack-keats.html\">This blog post features many of the books illustrations<\/a>, in case you have never seen them. I would definitely like to illustrate a children&#8217;s book in this style at some point.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1595\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-end.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1595 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-end-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"abstract collage on paper\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-end-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-end-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/schoolyard-end.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Schoolyard, finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In each of these collages, I am using similar ripped papers, some of which I painted\/created using mixed media techniques over the years, some from magazines, others are antique papers. Each collage also features some thread stitches. On this one, I made the &#8220;playground&#8221; out of coloured thread to communicate that playful jumble of monkey bars at the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the rare treat of picking up my young children from school on Friday, which inspired me to create this second collage on rag paper, called Schoolyard. I was also inspired by reading one of my favourite children&#8217;s books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1602\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[66,264,289,404,538,639,796,851,861],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-creative-2","tag-abstract-painting","tag-children","tag-collage","tag-ezra-jack-keats","tag-illustration","tag-mixed-media-painting","tag-rag-paper","tag-school","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}