{"id":327,"date":"2012-07-02T22:39:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=327"},"modified":"2012-07-02T22:39:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:39:04","slug":"portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Run: 50 min. lifting at the “Y”<\/p>\n

My Sister has been encouraging me to begin painting portraits. \u00a0I have been painting since 2003 in oils but just doing landscapes and still life…stuff like that. \u00a0Well, lately my Sister has decided that I need to expand my horizons and learn to paint portraits. \u00a0Easier said than done.<\/p>\n

The first thing you need in painting portraits is a person. \u00a0It is not easy to find someone who will willingly let you paint a picture of them. \u00a0They either have to sit very still for a very long time or they have to let you take a photograph of them and use that for reference. \u00a0Most people do not like the idea of either alternative~they are funny that way.<\/p>\n

The second thing you need is to know where to begin and that is where I am having my problem. \u00a0My Sister gave me a ton of pictures of her kids so I immediately picked out the easiest one. \u00a0Now what? \u00a0Your guess is a good as mine. \u00a0I read books and watched YouTube tutorials and they made it look easy.<\/p>\n

It is NOT easy! \u00a0I have been working on a painting of one of my nephews and yes, it looks like a little boy, kinda lopsided but yes, it looks like a little boy. \u00a0Does it look like my nephew? \u00a0Nope! \u00a0Not even close.<\/p>\n

Back to the drawing board!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Run: 50 min. lifting at the “Y” My Sister has been encouraging me to begin painting portraits. \u00a0I have been painting since 2003 in oils but just doing landscapes and still life…stuff like that. \u00a0Well, lately my Sister has decided that I need to expand my horizons and learn to paint portraits. \u00a0Easier said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}