{"id":305,"date":"2016-03-31T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurelantur.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/31\/2016-3-30-more-storybook-portraits-and-scenes\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T00:11:00","slug":"2016-3-30-more-storybook-portraits-and-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/31\/2016-3-30-more-storybook-portraits-and-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"More storybook portraits and scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I love painting these, they are a bit of a guilty pleasure. It is clear that I loved my Beatrix Potter books. &nbsp;But I judge my own work for its illustration quality. Like there is something wrong with it. And there isn&#8217;t! &nbsp;I am an illustrator, of characters for grown up story books. There. Now go away critical voice!<\/p>\n<p>These are works in progress. I seem to be creating a series of portraits, done in watercolor, or various creatures in regal robes. I like them. This one, below, has no head yet, but I plan on it being an albino raven.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The other piece is also a clue that a series might be developing. I like to show figures, in some sort fo interaction. They feel very supportive and spiritual to me, like guidance, empathy. This one I&#8217;m frustrated with because there is so much green! &nbsp;I can&#8217;t seem to get rid of it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3072px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56fc6a0537013be13fd47c46\/1459382804058\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Work in progress. Watercolor. TOO MUCH GREEN.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work in progress. Watercolor. TOO MUCH GREEN.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 3072px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56fc6a3ac2ea51bc05b99bb4\/1459382857629\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Another work in progress. NO HEAD!\u00a0\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another work in progress. NO HEAD!\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I love painting these, they are a bit of a guilty pleasure. It is clear that I loved my Beatrix Potter books. &nbsp;But I judge my own work for its illustration quality. Like there is something wrong with it. And there isn&#8217;t! &nbsp;I am an illustrator, of characters for grown up story books. There. Now go away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}