{"id":144,"date":"2012-07-31T15:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/?p=144"},"modified":"2012-07-31T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T14:35:53","slug":"collage-and-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2012\/07\/31\/collage-and-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Collage and Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of preparatory sketching has confirmed what I knew already \u2013 my current drawing skills are rubbish and it would take a lot more time than I\u2019m going to spend on this painting to improve them. However, I know I <em>can<\/em> do collage, so that\u2019s how I\u2019m going to construct most of this painting. I\u2019ll use some acrylic paint, but only for the large blocks of colour.<\/p>\n<p>Having made that decision, I\u2019m much encouraged. The paper version of the Guardian article dictates the width of the painting so I have purchased a canvas of 14 x18 inches (356 x 457mm); and I\u2019ve acquired the road scene from a Google street view of part of the commuter route I used to travel. Now I\u2019m working on how to represent my car being blown upwards to the space at the top of the canvas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of preparatory sketching has confirmed what I knew already \u2013 my current drawing skills are rubbish and it would take a lot more time than I\u2019m going to spend on this painting to improve them. However, I know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2012\/07\/31\/collage-and-canvas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}