{"id":226,"date":"2011-03-16T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/?p=226"},"modified":"2011-03-16T11:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:12:49","slug":"hydrangeas-bloom-before-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Hydrangeas Bloom Before Your Eyes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of going to a far-off tropical location for Spring-Break, I have been in western New York, painting away in my studio.\u00a0 I have a little under one month to finish my &#8220;Tradition&#8221; painting and deliver it to the <a href=\"www.oxfordgallery.com\">Oxford Gallery<\/a> by April 14th.\u00a0 One of the most prominent objects in my painting is a bouquet of flowers &#8211; hydrangeas, daffodils and roses.\u00a0 I decided to spend the last couple of days, working on one of the bunches of hydrangeas.\u00a0 I had only roughed in the flowers in the underdrawing, and didn&#8217;t include much detail.\u00a0 So, in working on the actual painting of the hydrangeas, it was pretty slow going, since I was also drawing in each flower in paint.\u00a0 Over the last four days, I spent about 15 hours getting that one bunch of flowers to a reasonable level of finish.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll move on to other flowers for now, and come back to these flowers at the end if I need to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_230\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_3_13_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-230\" title=\"Hydrangeas - Day 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_3_13_1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_3_13_1-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_3_13_1-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hydrangeas - Day 1<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_227\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_image2_3_14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-227\" title=\"Hydrangeas - Day 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_image2_3_14-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_image2_3_14-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_image2_3_14-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hydrangeas - Day 2<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_228\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_3_15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-228\" title=\"Hydrangeas - Day 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_3_15-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_3_15-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sarahmorganart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/S11_Morgan_Sarah_Traditions_3_15-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hydrangeas - Day 3<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of going to a far-off tropical location for Spring-Break, I have been in western New York, painting away in my studio.\u00a0 I have a little under one month to finish my &#8220;Tradition&#8221; 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