{"id":23,"date":"2005-06-28T07:12:41","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T14:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2005-06-28T07:12:41","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T14:12:41","slug":"finishing-swan-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2005\/06\/finishing-swan-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Swan Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NewI am just about finished with my large 24×36 swan painting. It certainly feels like quite an accomplishment when a large painting is finished. I can often finish miniature paintings in a day or two, but a very large piece will take at least a week to finish, maybe longer — more background in a piece will take longer to paint as well. Now that this larger piece is complete, I can begin working on paintings that have been requested by other galleries. Some of these pieces are specific subjects, some are requested by size, and others have no preference — just more work. :) It is so encouraging to have such interest for new paintings — I know that not all artists have this luxury. I am very thankful to have so much support. One new gallery in particular has requested a new collection of a large number of traditional miniature paintings for an exhibition they’re planning — some from each of my family members. After painting so many larger paintings, some smaller studies & miniatures sound delightful. :) I think any artist’s primary goal in painting is to make an impact with their work. I value the buying public’s opinion primarily, being that I make my living on my artwork, but I also believe there is merit in the opinion of those in the field of art. I (and my family — Karen & Bonnie were also included in this review) was very flattered recently to be reviewed as a "master of miniature painting". Thanks!! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am just about finished with my large 24×36 swan painting. It certainly feels like quite an accomplishment when a large painting is finished. I can often finish miniature paintings in a day or two, but a very large piece will take at least a week to finish, maybe longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,20,29],"tags":[1183,67,69,117,161,167,195,198,274,277,309,337,416,426],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings","category-paintings-of-birds","category-swan-paintings-sketches","tag-accomplishment","tag-artists","tag-artwork","tag-collection","tag-exhibition","tag-family","tag-galleries","tag-gallery","tag-miniature-paintings","tag-miniatures","tag-number","tag-piece","tag-swan","tag-traditional-miniature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}