{"id":974,"date":"2019-04-26T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=974"},"modified":"2019-04-26T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:45:35","slug":"flowers-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Flowers Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Painting is beginning to fill my thoughts &#8211; though it is still having to fight the garden for top place.\u00a0 My new friend sent me flowers as a thank you for introducing her to Hazel Soan, and one of Hazel&#8217;s demonstrations was about painting flowers.\u00a0 I felt impelled to try painting them even though flowers is not one of my usual subjects.\u00a0 And I have to say I rather pleased with the result so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Flowers-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-979\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Flowers-3-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Flowers-3-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Flowers-3-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Flowers-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 85vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>It really does leap off the page, not just in the photograph,which can sometimes happen &#8211; a really enjoyable quiet hour.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that was just before Easter when family activities and beautiful weather meant I had to stop there.\u00a0 I want to finish it and took a photo to that end, but that quiet time painting from life has made me want to try it more often.\u00a0 Of course, I am fearful of ruining it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting is beginning to fill my thoughts &#8211; though it is still having to fight the garden for top place.\u00a0 My new friend sent me flowers as a thank you for introducing her to Hazel Soan, and one of Hazel&#8217;s demonstrations was about painting flowers.\u00a0 I felt impelled to try painting them even though flowers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flowers Plus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}