{"id":719,"date":"2011-11-11T23:11:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T07:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2016-01-26T00:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T08:01:53","slug":"rainy-day-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Rainy day creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three weeks I haven&#8217;t touched my in-progress painting. But today I woke up with a three-day weekend and nowhere to go on a rainy stormy sort of day. Being Remembrance Day I thought perhaps I should take a stab at painting poppies. Don&#8217;t get too excited, because what I ended up with were two more paintings of soybean fields in the works. But I have a plan on one of them to get slightly more realistic than usual and to include actual structures in the field &#8211; the well house and ruins of a corn crib.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6331-e1-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6331-e1-1.jpg\" alt=\"mg_6331-e1\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6331-e1-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6331-e1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6331-e1-1-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But to my dismay, I ran out of gesso. I haven&#8217;t had to worry about art supplies for quite awhile, having stockpiled acrylic media and canvases when I had a student discount at Opus and cycling proximity to Granville Island. I don&#8217;t find the prices at the local art store very good, so I might just have to plan a visit to Vancouver to restock some things.<\/p>\n<p>I also had time to dress up as a queen upon the demand of my four-year-old, and restore a vintage step stool I found discarded along the street near my workplace. It&#8217;s been in the garage for several months, and today my two children and I attacked it with disinfectant and the wondrous thing called steel wool. I think I knew steel wool had magical powers since I had a chrome-fendered bicycle as a child. But I could not believe the transformation to the legs of this stool. I am quite satisfied with the result so it is now in our kitchen &#8211; hopefully providing a safer roost for our two-year-old at the island. It is the same type of stool we had at my parents&#8217; house that I was nostalgically online-shopping for, and luckily found for free.<\/p>\n<p>I love long weekends.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6334-e1-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4640\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6334-e1-1.jpg\" alt=\"mg_6334-e1\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6334-e1-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6334-e1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mg_6334-e1-1-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three weeks I haven&#8217;t touched my in-progress painting. But today I woke up with a three-day weekend and nowhere to go on a rainy stormy sort of day. Being Remembrance Day I thought perhaps I should take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=719\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[99,130,327,477,722,975],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-artistic-process","tag-creative","tag-gesso","tag-painting","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}