{"id":2073,"date":"2014-12-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:07:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:07:54","slug":"woodland-nursery-part-3-fox-and-fawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=2073","title":{"rendered":"Woodland nursery part 3: Fox and Fawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter loves to paint, and over the years I&#8217;ve learned to let her paint along with me sometimes, although I am naturally quite solitary when I&#8217;m working on creative projects. I had seen a cute painting of a fox <a href=\"http:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/featured\/fox-painting--print-from-original-alison-fennell.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and I thought it would be a fun addition to the &#8220;<a title=\"Woodland nursery part 1: bird mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/07\/woodland-nursery-part-1-bird-mobile\/\">Woodland nursery<\/a>&#8221; we&#8217;re creating.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2063\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 900px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/l-painting-fox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2063 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/l-painting-fox.jpg\" alt=\"painting a fox with watercolour paint\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/l-painting-fox.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/l-painting-fox-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/l-painting-fox-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">My daughter and I got out the watercolours for her first lesson using &#8220;real&#8221; watercolour paint and paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I find a lot of people are nervous to try watercolour. I started with this medium, so I quite like the effect you can get on real watercolour paper &#8211; the way the paint dries and the colours mix on the paper. We used rag paper out of a book I have. It quickly became clear that sketching this fox shape wasn&#8217;t going to be an easy lesson for a seven-year-old, so she claimed my first sketch and I drew myself another one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2074\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 900px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/foxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2074 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/foxes.jpg\" alt=\"fox watercolour paintings\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/foxes.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/foxes-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/foxes-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Two foxes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I plan to paint another one to fit into a pair of white antiqued frames I bought for the woodland wall. We&#8217;ll also try painting fawns like this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/117984769\/animal-poster-a4-unframed-fawn-print-of\" target=\"_blank\">one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fox-painting-mine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2062 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fox-painting-mine.jpg\" alt=\"watercolor fox\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fox-painting-mine.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fox-painting-mine-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter loves to paint, and over the years I&#8217;ve learned to let her paint along with me sometimes, although I am naturally quite solitary when I&#8217;m working on creative projects. I had seen a cute painting of a fox &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=2073\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[99,324,416,453,566,651,689,690,726,983,985],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-parenting-2","tag-art","tag-crafts","tag-family","tag-fox","tag-kids","tag-mother-daughter","tag-nursery","tag-nursery-art","tag-painting-with-kids","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}