{"id":986,"date":"2013-11-28T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2013-12-24T20:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T01:09:14","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1917.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[986]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1040\" alt=\"IMG_1917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_1917-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am inspired by many things, least of which includes technology and modern media overload. I find myself looking at portraiture for guidance, not as means of expression &#8211; but to guide my work to higher ideals and pursuits. I like realist painters, but stop short of realism in my figurative work due to my obsessive compulsive need to create a &#8216;mystical&#8217; landscape or a nod to the folk element of my self taught nature.<\/p>\n<p>I was trained as an illustrator, so my concept of high contrast with value is omnipresent. I try to escape this through color and true value, softer brushwork and strong composition. All of this I think about before I work, yet I let most of it go as I proceed &#8211; banking on my love and skill set to guide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Education and technique beguile me. At the height of my artistic process, when I created a process for to drive the work &#8211; I found it disheartening, and pulled from my galleries. I became obsessed with underpainting and drawing, not convinced I understood anything I teach or imply, which lets in demons. I meditate on process now, and see process as the most important aspect &#8211; or you fly into a storm and inevitably crash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am inspired by many things, least of which includes technology and modern media overload. I find myself looking at portraiture for guidance, not as means of expression &#8211; but to guide my work to higher ideals and pursuits. I like realist painters, but stop short of realism in my figurative work due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}