{"id":642,"date":"2012-02-16T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2012-02-16T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:00:20","slug":"painting-with-friends-is-an-enjoyable-way-to-spend-the-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Painting with friends is an enjoyable way to spend the afternoon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, my friend Patti contacted me about possibly getting together to paint.\u00a0 Patti is an artist as well and has a flexible schedule, so it sounded like a great idea to me.\u00a0 One beautiful, crisp fall day I went over to her house and we painted &#8220;en plein-air&#8221; in her backyard, capturing her garage.\u00a0 This was my first time painting outside in my <a href=\"http:\/\/beepaper.com\/paper\/classic-super-deluxe.asp\">Aquabee sketchpad<\/a>, and it was a bit difficult getting used to how much water could be used on the page and how fast it would dry off in the nice sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=643\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-643\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-643\" title=\"Patti's Garage - Plein Air Painting\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/patti_garage_plein_air.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/patti_garage_plein_air.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/patti_garage_plein_air-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a>I really like how this painting came out, as long as I don&#8217;t inspect the crazy perspective at the bottom of the page.\u00a0 Painting en plein-air is very difficult, but it was something that both Patti and I have enjoyed and have taken to doing the first Saturday of the month, adding a few people into our fold.\u00a0 This particular month we were unable to meet on the first Saturday, so we&#8217;ve rescheduled it to this weekend, which I look forward to!\u00a0 If you&#8217;re local and interested in painting on the first Saturday, let me know!\u00a0 There is no prerequisite to being good at painting at all &#8212; we welcome everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, my friend Patti contacted me about possibly getting together to paint.\u00a0 Patti is an artist as well and has a flexible schedule, so it sounded like a great idea to me.\u00a0 One beautiful, crisp fall day I went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=642\">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":[18,132,152,242,307,359,378],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}