{"id":675,"date":"2012-05-03T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-05-03T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:00:32","slug":"griffith-observatory-watercolor-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Griffith Observatory Watercolor Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all of my plein air paintings with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?cat=305\">Saturday morning group<\/a>, I am most proud of this one. \u00a0We set out to go to the Griffith Observatory one beautiful January morning and I chose this spot for all of us. \u00a0We sat down, started drawing, and then a half hour in I exclaimed, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t anyone warn me how difficult this angle would be?!&#8221; \u00a0I initially started out in pen and ink and then abandoned ship&#8230;it just wasn&#8217;t coming out.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I had a pencil and eraser on hand, so I gave it another shot and a drawing eventually came together. \u00a0Getting through the drawing is difficult for me &#8212; I would much rather be putting paint on the paper. \u00a0So, I was excited to move on to the paint stage and am SO pleased with how this came together. \u00a0I especially love the patina on the dome!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=676\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-676\" title=\"Griffith Observatory Watercolor\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/griffithobs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/griffithobs.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/griffithobs-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all of my plein air paintings with my Saturday morning group, I am most proud of this one. \u00a0We set out to go to the Griffith Observatory one beautiful January morning and I chose this spot for all of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=675\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,33,48,97,132,168,242,307,359,378,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beautiful","category-blue","category-colorful","category-en-plein-air","category-griffith-observatory","category-painting","category-saturday-morning-painting-group","category-travel-watercolor-kit","category-watercolor","category-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}