{"id":1499,"date":"2016-01-17T14:44:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T22:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2016-01-20T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:23:43","slug":"canadian-aspens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/canadian-aspens\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Aspens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian Aspens<\/p><\/div>\n

These aspen trees are on the road between Lake Louise and Jasper, Alberta, Canada. I took the reference photo on our honeymoon trip in 1975. I painted two of these for Christmas gifts – one for my wife and one for our daughter.<\/p>\n

Acrylic on Gessobord. 6×6 inches (15.2×15.2 cm).<\/p>\n

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Here are both of them side by side.<\/p>\n

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Canadian Aspens – Day 3<\/p><\/div>\n

I painted these over three days. On the first day I painted the sky, mountains, background trees and roughed in the foreground.<\/p>\n

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Canadian Aspens – Day 1<\/p><\/div>\n

The second day I added the aspen trees.<\/p>\n

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Canadian Aspens – Day 2<\/p><\/div>\n

On day 3 I worked on detail. I added some branches and worked on the grasses and flowers in the foreground. I like working on a pair like this. I can see how something works in one and then apply it or change it in the other.<\/p>\n

Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These aspen trees are on the road between Lake Louise and Jasper, Alberta, Canada. I took the reference photo on our honeymoon trip in 1975. I painted two of these for Christmas gifts – one for my wife and one for our daughter. Acrylic on Gessobord. 6×6 inches (15.2×15.2 cm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-1499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-painting","7":"tag-acrylic","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}