{"id":656,"date":"2012-03-01T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2012-03-01T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:00:27","slug":"la-zoo-watercolor-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"LA Zoo Watercolor Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday is the first Saturday of the month, and so I&#8217;m hoping to be able to get together with a few friends to go out on a painting excursion. \u00a0This all started from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=642\">an afternoon painting in a friend&#8217;s backyard<\/a>. \u00a0Since then, we have gone to the Zoo, Descanso Gardens, and the Griffith Observatory&#8230;paintings I will share in the coming months!<\/p>\n<p>For the zoo, it was just Patti and I. \u00a0She led us to a nice tree-covered, patio-type place by the giraffes and chimps and it would have been great&#8230;in the summer. \u00a0By the end of the 2-3 hours we spent there, we were both icicles. \u00a0This particular subject was challenging for me, and when I left the zoo, I was so disappointed that it did not turn out. \u00a0But then after a few hours, when I looked at it again, I realized it wasn&#8217;t as bad as I thought. \u00a0It&#8217;s surely not going to win any awards, but painting and drawing from life is hard, especially (for me) when painting animals and having difficult perspective challenges. \u00a0Maybe we can go back and try again this summer, when it is a bit hotter outside and we could use some sitting in the cool shade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-657\" title=\"LA Zoo: Painting Giraffes in the Shade\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lazoo_giraffe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lazoo_giraffe.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lazoo_giraffe-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday is the first Saturday of the month, and so I&#8217;m hoping to be able to get together with a few friends to go out on a painting excursion. \u00a0This all started from an afternoon painting in a friend&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=656\">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":[18,48,97,123,132,157,242,307,359,360,378,401],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"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=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}