{"id":1053,"date":"2014-10-14T05:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T05:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2014-10-14T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T05:31:23","slug":"oil-painting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/oil-painting-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil painting again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did my first new oil painting in 43 years last week. And I led Damnation Crack cleanly! I know painting and climbing have nothing at all to do with one another. What can I say&#8230;I&#8217;m complicated.<\/p>\n<p>I have a box of oil paints I bought when I was 17. I painted for a few months, then gave them up. After seeing the wonderful oil paintings Barbara Newton is doing after she switched over from pastel, I had to give it a try.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.websterart.com\/images\/turban-oil-700h.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"turban squash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.websterart.com\/images\/turban-oil-700h.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">turban squash<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also have wanted to try palette knife painting. To my great surprise, my first painting turned out absolutely amazing. I&#8217;m working on another one, thinking I might do a series. It seems that my eye for color and composition carrys directly across to the new medium. Who knew a new medium could be so exciting!<\/p>\n<p>I love the freshness that comes through with knife painting. Every stroke has variety, as long as I don&#8217;t over mix the colors. And speaking of color, I no longer have to worry about having the right $4.00 pastel crayon&#8230;I can just mix it up for free from these old oil paints&#8230;talk about a blast from past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did my first new oil painting in 43 years last week. And I led Damnation Crack cleanly! I know painting and climbing have nothing at all to do with one another. What can I say&#8230;I&#8217;m complicated. I have a box of oil paints I bought when I was 17. I painted for a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}