{"id":6,"date":"2004-02-26T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts2\/?p=6"},"modified":"2004-02-26T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T15:29:00","slug":"college-watercolors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/2004\/02\/college-watercolors.html","title":{"rendered":"College watercolors"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was in college, my friends and I did the strangest things for fun. We drank a lot, of course, but while we were drinking, we would write poetry to each other or paint or sing along to show tunes. These were guys too! I have a few paintings remaining from those many sessions. I’m not a very good painter, but I did used to have fun with it.<\/p>\n


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This is my standard “scene.” I’ve drawn, sewn, painted this I don’t know how many times.<\/p>\n


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One of my favorites. An artist friend of mine (someone with actual talent) even liked it.<\/p>\n


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An attempt at realism. Rather poor.<\/p>\n


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My favorite is “The Wall.” I painted this one night when, sitting alone in the dark, the white wall in front of me seemed to turn into an undulating dark blue creature. I almost captured the wall I saw in this painting. So what are the naked people doing there? I happened to be thinking about a guy I had a crush on when I saw the wall, so this seemed like the appropriate foreground.<\/p>\n

I recently bought some watercolors and tried to paint again but I’ve lost that youthful attitude that allows you to continue on despite an obvious lack of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was in college, my friends and I did the strangest things for fun. We drank a lot, of course, but while we were drinking, we would write poetry to each other or paint or sing along to show tunes. These were guys too! I have a few paintings remaining from those many sessions…. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}