{"id":281,"date":"2012-09-12T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2012-09-12T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T15:55:02","slug":"staithes-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Staithes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_282\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StcomB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"size-full wp-image-282\" title=\"StcomB\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StcomB.jpg\" alt=\"Staithes. oil on canvas, 50x70cm.\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StcomB.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StcomB-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StcomB-417x300.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staithes. oil on canvas, 50x70cm.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recently finished, this painting was commissioned by friends who want coastal views. Commissions are great, because I know where the painting is going, yet a bit daunting, as I never know how it will work out or whether patrons will like it (I don&#8217;t do the same thing twice, and although I decide on the composition before I start, I like to let things change during the painting process&#8230;). This painting was commissioned when they saw one of my small square oil paintings (Staithes Boats) and liked the subject and the colours, but wanted a larger one in a rectangular format.<\/p>\n<p>Usually I just paint what I want to paint, with the hope that one day someone will like it, and will have space for it, and will have enough money to buy it&#8230; Usually it works out, but sometimes a painting need to go to many galleries before it is seen by the right person.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_287\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StBoats1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-287\" title=\"StBoats\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StBoats1-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Staithes Boats, oil on canvas, 20x20cm\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StBoats1-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/StBoats1.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staithes Boats, oil on canvas, 20x20cm<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently finished, this painting was commissioned by friends who want coastal views. Commissions are great, because I know where the painting is going, yet a bit daunting, as I never know how it will work out or whether patrons will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=281\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}