{"id":515,"date":"2011-04-06T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2011-09-22T20:28:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T00:28:20","slug":"goals-schmoals-and-flores-brilliantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/goals-schmoals-and-flores-brilliantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals, Schmoals and Flores Brilliantes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_522\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/goals-schmoals-and-flores-brilliantes\/flores-brilliantes-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-522\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-522\" title=\"Flores Brilliantes \" src=\"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flores-Brilliantes-1-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flores Brilliantes\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flores-Brilliantes-1-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flores-Brilliantes-1-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flores-Brilliantes-1-801x1024.jpg 801w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flores-Brilliantes-1.jpg 1253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flores Brilliantes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just realized when updating the Passion Flower post that I had set a goal to create 6 representational abstract flower paintings by the end of the month. \u00a0Well, that fell by the wayside for many reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The first is that I got discouraged. \u00a0I started with blue background and yellow daffodils. \u00a0But I tried to make them look too realistic. \u00a0Then I tried bigger flowers and less background. \u00a0It was a mess. \u00a0I painted over this canvas so many times, I finally had to carve out the flowers. \u00a0And now it has become one of my favorite paintings. \u00a0The colors are awesome, and the rhythm is so perfect, but photographing it has been somewhat of a failure. Still learning to use my camera.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to get back to just picking three colors, like I did with Passion Flower. \u00a0Then making them work, and calling it finished! \u00a0Time is money, as we all know.<\/p>\n<p>The other distraction has been getting my art studio set up. \u00a0It&#8217;s really great, well-lit and inspiring. \u00a0So, now I&#8217;m back to work today, I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Just realized when updating the Passion Flower post that I had set a goal to create 6 representational abstract flower paintings by the end of the month. \u00a0Well, that fell by the wayside for many reasons. The first is that I got discouraged. \u00a0I started with blue background and yellow daffodils. \u00a0But I tried [&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":[92,90,13],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-prints-collages","tag-abstract","tag-acrylic","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}