{"id":3840,"date":"2011-06-05T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2011-06-05T19:26:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T02:26:49","slug":"painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_5542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_5542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_5542.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_5542-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night Richard and the boys went to a minor league baseball game in town. Mark, Paige, and I stayed home. After watching PBS for a while, we pulled out the oil paints. We found these canvases and easels at Walmart. They are tiny, making a painting project less time consuming.<\/p>\n<p>I taught Relief Society today. My topic was &#8220;We love life and learning.&#8221; All week I have been reflecting about things I have learned which have enriched my life. I will always consider myself a beginner, but painting is good for me because I can make a study of something for a while, savoring small details. Painting has opened my eyes to color, to nature, and to the people I decide to paint.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t capture little Ruby in the painting, but that&#8217;s okay. I learned something, I had fun, and I grew to love her more as I tried to paint her.<\/p>\n<p>Paige has been eying this flower for a long time. I&#8217;m glad she decided to do it. I think she did a great job.<\/p>\n<p>Mark&#8217;s truck and sun make me happy. He worked very hard on this and mixed his own paints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Richard and the boys went to a minor league baseball game in town. Mark, Paige, and I stayed home. After watching PBS for a while, we pulled out the oil paints. We found these canvases and easels at Walmart. They are tiny, making a painting project less time consuming. I taught Relief Society &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Painting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}