{"id":342,"date":"2010-08-22T12:29:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T16:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artuitive.net\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2010-12-07T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:42:47","slug":"the-eyes-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/the-eyes-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eyes Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artuitive.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-350 aligncenter\" title=\"The Eye Has It\" src=\"http:\/\/artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/The-Eye_1B-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/The-Eye_1B-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/The-Eye_1B-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/The-Eye_1B-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/The-Eye_1B.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of you know that I was at a Janet Rogers workshop this last week at Cheap Joe&#8217;s Art Stuff in Boone, NC. \u00a0I met some fabulous new friends and amazing artists. \u00a0Janet is very improvisational, which suits me and certainly got me motivated. \u00a0I learned a lot about shadow shapes and am finding new ways to paint them &#8211; it&#8217;s a negative space exercise. \u00a0This makes you think backwards, really. \u00a0Instead of outlining the figure, face or flower, you paint the shadows. \u00a0Very challenging.<\/p>\n<p>What I really loved was the Eye exercise &#8211; the half-face to be exact. \u00a0I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time\u00a0gazing\u00a0at the loose pastels of Virginia St. John where she puts in just a few lines and gestures to indicate and inform us on who&#8217;s there. \u00a0Imagine my ecstacy when my Eye painting reminded me of her. \u00a0Maybe she&#8217;s in heaven looking over my shoulder. \u00a0I miss her every day that I paint and am so grateful for her fabulous works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you know that I was at a Janet Rogers workshop this last week at Cheap Joe&#8217;s Art Stuff in Boone, NC. \u00a0I met some fabulous new friends and amazing artists. \u00a0Janet is very improvisational, which suits me and certainly got me motivated. \u00a0I learned a lot about shadow shapes and am finding new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,22,23,6],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-prints-collages","tag-eyes","tag-face","tag-faces","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}