{"id":631,"date":"2012-02-21T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2012-02-21T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T14:00:14","slug":"four-colorful-pears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Four Colorful Pears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around Christmastime, I seemingly had a little bit more free time than I do at present.\u00a0 Anyway that, combined with being charged to paint a picture for my Aunt Ellie for Christmas, combined with putting together an Easter painting for Glenmary, led me to a lot of painting.\u00a0 Sometimes I paint from life, sometimes from pictures.\u00a0 One of my favorite sites to look for painting inspiration is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a>&#8230;although sometimes I come across some pictures that are so pretty that I think &#8220;how could I possibly paint anything prettier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I ran across a picture of four pears on Flickr, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/espionic\/145633304\/in\/faves-jenniferdianesmith\/\">Pear Parade<\/a>.\u00a0 This is one of those pictures where I wonder why even try to make it prettier (the lighting and arrangement, etc. is so perfect to me), but I tried anyway, and am happy with the results.\u00a0 First, I love painting fruit because I love the bright colors that you can get.\u00a0 Second, although I have painted fruit before, I was intrigued with painting the same thing but with differing attributes (tall v. skinny, green v. red, etc.).\u00a0 In the end, I really like how this painting came out &#8212; loose, but identifiable, and I love the delicate shadows under the pears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=632\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-632\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-632\" title=\"Four Colorful Pears\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fourcolorfulpears.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fourcolorfulpears.jpg 567w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fourcolorfulpears-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around Christmastime, I seemingly had a little bit more free time than I do at present.\u00a0 Anyway that, combined with being charged to paint a picture for my Aunt Ellie for Christmas, combined with putting together an Easter painting for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,97,143,163,242,256,292,316,335,378,396],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}