{"id":213,"date":"2011-03-05T15:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-03-05T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:22:39","slug":"painting-the-background-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Painting the background = progress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Traditons_background.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-214\" title=\"Traditons painting - background\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Traditons_background-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Traditons_background-239x300.jpg 239w, http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Traditons_background.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a>Over the last couple of days, I&#8217;ve been able to spend some time painting in my studio.\u00a0 I decided to work on the background first, knowing that it wouldn&#8217;t take too much time.\u00a0 And since it takes up at least 1\/3 of the entire surface, I could feel like I&#8217;ve made some real progress.\u00a0 Putting time into working on the background was something impressed on me while I was a grad student at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyaa.edu\/nyaa\/index.html\">The New York Academy of Art<\/a>.\u00a0 Even if the background is negative space, it takes up so much of the painting that it shouldn&#8217;t be an afterthought.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a large painting &#8211; 24 x 30&#8243; &#8211; but it is larger than I&#8217;ve worked in awhile.\u00a0 I had to make sure I mixed up enough paint when I started, so as not to run out half-way through!<\/p>\n<p>So, I do feel like I&#8217;ve made some progress, but I&#8217;ll have to spend a lot more time working on this to have it done on time.\u00a0 I should finish the table cloth today &#8211; it won&#8217;t take long.\u00a0 Next, I&#8217;ll tackle the flowers.\u00a0 That will likely take the longest, and I don&#8217;t want to rush on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of days, I&#8217;ve been able to spend some time painting in my studio.\u00a0 I decided to work on the background first, knowing that it wouldn&#8217;t take too much time.\u00a0 And since it takes up at least 1\/3 of the entire surface, I could feel like I&#8217;ve made some real progress.\u00a0 Putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}