{"id":1916,"date":"2014-05-22T04:27:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T11:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2016-01-19T23:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:10:23","slug":"not-everything-turns-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1916","title":{"rendered":"Not everything turns out"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an experimental artist, I’m now well seasoned in having things not turn out as planned. It used to really upset me when paintings didn’t work. Now, I usually just let them sit until enough time has passed that I can move on and take the piece in a new direction.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been painting very much as I’ve been very busy, but decided I should just play around and see what would happen. This first piece went so utterly badly it is almost laughable, except that it has a macabre look to it! I was just thinking about the concept of aging so I found an elderly lady in a magazine and started there:<\/p>\n

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“Scary lady” – mixed media collage on illustration board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was playing off of the same sort of idea as my Courage painting, below, which lots of people like (and which I plan to sell soon), but somehow the effect did not work this time. I don’t even think I can finish this one! Unless someone has a suggestion of how I could make this less scary.<\/p>\n

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Courage painting, Mixed Media \/ Nancy Hildebrand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an experimental artist, I’m now well seasoned in having things not turn out as planned. It used to really upset me when paintings didn’t work. Now, I usually just let them sit until enough time has passed that I … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[76,99,136,289,348,380,638,697,704,719,722,848],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-creative-2","tag-aging","tag-art","tag-artwork","tag-collage","tag-dark","tag-elderly","tag-mixed-media","tag-old","tag-oldness","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-scary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","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=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}