{"id":1105,"date":"2015-03-18T05:51:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T05:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2015-03-18T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:13:22","slug":"painting-moms-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/painting-moms-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Mom’s roses"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1970 I was a typical troubled teen full of angst. There was marching and protests in the streets over the Vietnam war. With all the turmoil, not to mention the draft, I was confused about what I wanted to do in life. But mom had a garden full of roses and knew I loved to draw. She would pick roses and set them on the coffee table in the living room where I would see them. \u00a0I drew her roses, repeatedly in a variety of mediums. I still have those old drawings.<\/p>\n

Fast forward 45 years and I’m still painting roses, or trying to. I bought a $15 bouquet on the weekend and got two paintings out of it before they wilted too badly. I read a lot on www.wetcanvas.com<\/a> about painting. They have a FAQ page for beginning oil painters. One of the top 5 common mistakes is called “Licking”. This\u00a0is where you brush the canvas, then re-brush the same spot\u00a0repeatedly trying to make\u00a0the brush stroke perfect. It’s called “licking” in reference to a cat licking it’s fur.<\/p>\n

When I read that a light went on in my head. In the roses paintings below I am practicing my new “no licking” policy.<\/p>\n

Three recent paintings from the last week:<\/p>\n

\"roses<\/a>

roses palette knife<\/p><\/div>\n

\"roses<\/a>

roses<\/p><\/div>\n

\"roses<\/a>

peppers and teapot<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1970 I was a typical troubled teen full of angst. There was marching and protests in the streets over the Vietnam war. With all the turmoil, not to mention the draft, I was confused about what I wanted to do in life. But mom had a garden full of roses and knew I loved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","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=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}