{"id":432,"date":"2012-01-30T22:06:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2012-01-30T22:07:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:07:22","slug":"432","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Sage Portrait Work in Progress day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/405683_10150643988107868_712742867_11404817_472852008_n.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[432]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-433\" title=\"Work in Progress - Sage in Profile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/405683_10150643988107868_712742867_11404817_472852008_n-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/405683_10150643988107868_712742867_11404817_472852008_n-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/405683_10150643988107868_712742867_11404817_472852008_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I started this painting several times &#8211; on different canvases &#8211; finally settling on a square format, which I feel works successfully for the subject. I am mainly focus on tone at this point, having taken some time to alter the drawing before this stage. It did not look so accurate as to my reference for a while. I sit and meditate on what needs to be done, trying all the while not to identify with the work at hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am a painter, and this is the work I do. I expect it to\u00a0always\u00a0come out somewhat close to my vision, and the arrival \u00a0does not excite me nearly as much as the journey. I enjoy the realism and truth behind tonality, the understanding of my calling &#8211; and the essential elements that go into me working in this field. I fake reality. Master of Reality!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this painting several times &#8211; on different canvases &#8211; finally settling on a square format, which I feel works successfully for the subject. I am mainly focus on tone at this point, having taken some time to alter the drawing before this stage. It did not look so accurate as to my reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}