{"id":15,"date":"2019-11-12T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2019-11-13T08:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T08:04:52","slug":"painted-artwork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Painted Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dabbling in the Real World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"140\" src=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Row-of-Flowers-1024x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Row-of-Flowers-1024x140.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Row-of-Flowers-300x41.jpg 300w, http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Row-of-Flowers-768x105.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Little Flowers in Little Vases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While I like working with my hands, I&#8217;ve spent a large portion of my life trying to convince myself that they shake a little too bad to paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend of mine got me into painting with watercolors, because the supplies are pretty inexpensive and the medium is very forgiving if you accidentally splotch in the wrong place.  I make it a point to try to do something small, like the strip above or the ones below, at least once every week or so.  It&#8217;s a pleasant break from the computer monitor and I feel, pleasantly enough, like I&#8217;m eleven again doing arts and crafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-strips-of-Fall-1024x313.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\" srcset=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-strips-of-Fall-1024x313.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-strips-of-Fall-300x92.jpg 300w, http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-strips-of-Fall-768x235.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Rows of Fall.  These two little strips are actually my favorite works thus far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Two-Flower-Pots-231x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Two-Flower-Pots-231x1024.jpg 231w, http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Two-Flower-Pots-68x300.jpg 68w, http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Two-Flower-Pots.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Yellow-Flower-128x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" width=\"128\" height=\"1027\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"654\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Blue-Vase-654x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123\" srcset=\"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Blue-Vase-654x1024.jpg 654w, http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Blue-Vase-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Blue-Vase-768x1202.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><figcaption>The Blue Vase.  This is actually my largest attempt, about six inches tall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dabbling in the Real World While I like working with my hands, I&#8217;ve spent a large portion of my life trying to convince&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/serioustangents.com\/SeriousBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}