{"id":3277,"date":"2004-12-17T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T19:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2004-12-17T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T19:48:25","slug":"new-paintings-cold-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2004\/12\/new-paintings-cold-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"New Paintings & Cold Temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have recently begun the color phase of my recent bathing swan miniature commission. I like the way it’s turning out. A photo of the color painting is now posted next to the sketch in my studio’s commissions page <\/a>if you’d like to take a look. I’ve just started the 20×30 swan painting. I chose to paint a little different pose and a different species then I normally do — a trumpeter swan this time. I also chose to start the piece without a traditional drawing of pencil or similar method. I began by drawing with my brush. Beginning in this way is less forgiving of course, but I like the fluidity of the "sketch". I know of several portrait painters that work in this way (one of them is Daniel Greene who my mother studied with), so I thought it might be interesting to try. I did start my painting "Cockatoo Talk" without a drawing, just began painting, but that was because I couldn’t find a pencil. I am also working on a squirrel painting from some of the references I shot while we were on the east coast. One thing you can be sure of in Minnesota this time of year is that it will be chilly. My family and I went up north a few days ago for a photoshoot. The Twin Cities area doesn’t have a lot of snow or ice, so we had to travel north a bit, which also means colder temperatures. The thermometer didn’t rise above 27° during the entire shoot — making for some numb fingers & toes. I could have taken a break to warm up — which, yes I should have :) & was reminded of — but I was having so much fun I couldn’t bring myself to quit. We did come away with some very nice photo references in spite the cold. The area had a nice subtle look with a lot of delicate tones — very inspiring! Just about all of our shots turned out. I took about 1,300 in the 3hr shoot. More ideas to paint!! "Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do." — unknown<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have recently begun the color phase of my recent bathing swan miniature commission. I like the way it’s turning out. A photo of the color painting is now posted next to the sketch in my studio’s commissions page if you’d like to take a look. I’ve just started the […]<\/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":[12,17],"tags":[57,86,1708,119,123,127,1675,141,1446,1371,257,325,337,1109,1377,412,416,1052,527,472],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration_researchstudy_fieldtrips","category-paintings","tag-area","tag-bit","tag-cockatoo-talk","tag-color-phase","tag-commission","tag-course","tag-daniel-greene","tag-drawing","tag-east-coast","tag-few-days","tag-look","tag-painting","tag-piece","tag-pose","tag-squirrel","tag-studio","tag-swan","tag-time-of-year","tag-traditional","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\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}