{"id":1340,"date":"2015-01-30T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2015-01-30T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:56:48","slug":"finally-put-a-brush-to-paper-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"Finally put a brush to paper today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#39;ve just been trying to tread water and keep afloat (metaphorically), I haven&#39;t put a brush to paper (for myself) in ages. Today while I was working on a Ranger blog assignment (will link you up to that next month), I was waiting for some gesso to dry. I never sit and wait for paint, so I turned to my journal and roughed out this face. I love patchy layers, brushstrokes that show the hand of the artist. It&#39;s just how I love to make my art. Felt good to paint for myself, even if only for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Did you make art today?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201b7c7425bc8970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dina wakley face\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e201b7c7425bc8970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201b7c7425bc8970b-500wi\" title=\"Dina wakley face\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#39;ve just been trying to tread water and keep afloat (metaphorically), I haven&#39;t put a brush to paper (for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}