{"id":220,"date":"2011-03-09T22:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T03:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/?p=220"},"modified":"2011-03-09T22:16:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T03:16:48","slug":"3-eggs-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"3 Eggs and Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_drawing_brown_bottle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-221\" title=\"Eggs, Brown Bottle and Milk Pitcher \" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_drawing_brown_bottle-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_drawing_brown_bottle-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_drawing_brown_bottle.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As an art professor, I&#8217;m constantly starting new projects for demonstration.\u00a0 Unfortunately I seldom have the time to finish them.\u00a0 This drawing started as a demonstration (as usual), but it was several months before I could spend any real time on it.\u00a0 In fact, I did most of the work on it last June and July.<\/p>\n<p>I started this drawing from life &#8211; I set it up in a corner of the painting studio at school.\u00a0 I took several photographs before the end of the semester to use as reference, to finish the drawing at home.\u00a0 (I prefer to work from life, but I don&#8217;t mind finishing a piece using good reference photos).<\/p>\n<p>Drawing does have some advantages over painting.\u00a0 I can pick it up, or put it down at any time.\u00a0 No mixing paint, no clean-up.\u00a0 It has some disadvantages, though.\u00a0 It took forever to build up the background.\u00a0 What would&#8217;ve only taken a few hours with oil paint, took several days with charcoal.\u00a0 Actually, it was while working on the background that I stumbled upon my new favorite non-art art tool &#8211; q-tips!<\/p>\n<p>I put the finishing touches on this drawing a few days ago, and dropped it off at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galleryandframe.com\/\">Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame<\/a> this afternoon.\u00a0 It will be ready for <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.flcc.edu\/EventList.aspx?fromdate=4\/1\/2011&amp;todate=4\/1\/2011&amp;display=Day&amp;type=public&amp;eventidn=2487&amp;view=EventDetails&amp;information_id=5407\">FLCC&#8217;s biennial faculty art show<\/a> which opens April 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an art professor, I&#8217;m constantly starting new projects for demonstration.\u00a0 Unfortunately I seldom have the time to finish them.\u00a0 This drawing started as a demonstration (as usual), but it was several months before I could spend any real time on it.\u00a0 In fact, I did most of the work on it last June and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30,31,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}