{"id":435,"date":"2013-05-15T16:55:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2013-05-15T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:56:29","slug":"spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Spring."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_436\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Blbl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-436\" alt=\"Bluebells and grapes. watercolour. 35x50cm. \u00a3150. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Blbl.jpg\" width=\"441\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Blbl.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Blbl-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebells and grapes.<br \/>watercolour. 35x50cm. \u00a3150.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spring came and was glorious, but grey clouds have cut it short.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on commissions, a painting of Whitby Piers for A.L., and a larger panoramic painting of Cleveland hills for R.H.\u00a0 Both have been challenging in their way. And neither are yet completed.<\/p>\n<p>I see commission work as a weaving of 3 strands: the subject, my reaction to the subject as an artist, and the wishes of the client. This must be fitted within the framework of time, as most people have a limited budget. Sometimes I wish I could paint faster, but I think that my slow contemplative approach gives a certain serenity to my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring came and was glorious, but grey clouds have cut it short. I&#8217;ve been working on commissions, a painting of Whitby Piers for A.L., and a larger panoramic painting of Cleveland hills for R.H.\u00a0 Both have been challenging in their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=435\">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-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}