{"id":267,"date":"2006-04-03T21:23:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T03:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/2006\/04\/03\/commissions-2\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T21:23:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T03:23:41","slug":"commissions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2006\/04\/commissions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Two-of-a-Kind-Macaws - Blue and Gold Macaw painting by Rebecca Latham\" style=\"width: 203px; height: 452px\" height=\"452\" alt=\"Two-of-a-Kind-Macaws - Blue and Gold Macaw painting by Rebecca Latham\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Two-of-a-Kind-Macaws.jpg?resize=203%2C452\" width=\"203\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>I get quite a few questions at exhibitions and via email about various aspects of being a professional artist.&nbsp; One of which is the subject of commissioned work.&nbsp; As you may already know, I am working on quite a number of commissions at the moment.&nbsp;&nbsp; All of them on display on various easels in my studio.&nbsp; I have a great deal more of them than I did a short time ago.&nbsp; If the murmurings are correct, my prediction is that there will only be more of them in the future.&nbsp; It is a little overwhelming at times, having so many things just &quot;waiting&quot; for me in my studio.&nbsp; ;)<\/p>\n<p>I know that numerous artists tend to&nbsp;dislike commissions, and refuse to take them.&nbsp; Most often, artists paint (or sculpt) things they feel connected to.&nbsp; There is usually a story behind a work of art that impacted the artist and generated the inspiration to make it.&nbsp; So, when a subject is predetermined, it is difficult at times to muster enough creative inspiration to plunge through some of them.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, I should clarify that I really don&#8217;t mind painting commissions.&nbsp; It is rather interesting to have a subject for a piece requested.&nbsp; Often, I find that it makes me think of creative concepts and arrangements to make an idea &quot;work&quot; in a painting that I may have never thought of before.&nbsp; A creative exercise or puzzle, if you will.&nbsp; In a sense, the act of painting itself becomes the inspiration. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rebecca Latham | Wildlife Artist\" style=\"width: 26px; height: 17px\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Rebecca Latham | Wildlife Artist\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/RL.gif?resize=26%2C17\" width=\"26\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Latham Studios | Wildlife Art\" style=\"width: 36px; height: 50px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"Latham Studios | Wildlife Art\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/DancerClip.gif?resize=36%2C50\" width=\"36\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get quite a few questions at exhibitions and via email about various aspects of being a professional artist.&nbsp; One of which is the subject of commissioned work.&nbsp; As you may already know, I am working on quite a number of commissions at the moment.&nbsp;&nbsp; All of them on display [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,13,17],"tags":[65,67,69,88,123,139,150,151,644,225,691,287,309,324,325,337,1237,1248,412,467,472],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commissioned-paintings","category-miscellaneous","category-paintings","tag-artist","tag-artists","tag-artwork","tag-blog","tag-commission","tag-display","tag-easel","tag-easels","tag-email","tag-inspiration","tag-many-things","tag-moment","tag-number","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-piece","tag-professional-artist","tag-short-time","tag-studio","tag-wildlife_art","tag-work"],"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\/267","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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}