{"id":54,"date":"2005-07-26T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-07-26T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T04:40:24","slug":"midnight-complexion-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Complexion (Artwork)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Current mood: Aware \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Midnight-Complexion\/Midnight_Complexion.sized.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin: 1em; float: right\" \/><br \/>\nPaint brushes frighten me. I am used to pencils and pens. Those are solid; they don&#8217;t squish and deform when you press them against a surface.<\/p>\n<p>But in spite of my brushphobia, I am fascinated by painting, so when I had a free afternoon last week, I went to the Apple Barrel and purchased the biggest canvas they had and a couple cheap brushes. Then I went to Rural King a bought three cans of latex house paint and a drop-cloth.<\/p>\n<p>I spread out my art supplies on the porch and opened a bag of ice (it was hot out there), and painted for about two-and-a-half-hours.<\/p>\n<p>She isn&#8217;t anyone in particular, althought I will admit that her right eye is Ryda&#8217;s (and Ryda will kill me for saying that)<\/p>\n<p>As a final note; while I was working on this painting, I came up with a Theory of Art<\/p>\n<p><em>Creating art is the inverse complement of learning. When you learn, you take a part of reality, and you create a working representation of it in your mind. When you create art, you take something that exists in your mind, and you build a physical representation of it in the real world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Take that with a grain of salt ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current mood: Aware Paint brushes frighten me. I am used to pencils and pens. Those are solid; they don&#8217;t squish and deform when you press them against a surface. But in spite of my brushphobia, I am fascinated by painting, so when I had a free afternoon last week, I went to the Apple Barrel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}