{"id":295,"date":"2005-07-22T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.dreamhosters.com\/wordpress\/?p=295"},"modified":"2005-07-22T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T21:23:03","slug":"about-bad-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/about-bad-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"about bad paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t talk badly about a painting I hope to sell, but still, it&#8217;s my journal and I need to write about these things. This is an <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/encaustic\" rel=\"tag\">encaustic<\/a> painting I did today when I had no plan.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I have to paint a bad painting just to try and figure out what makes it bad. Sometimes I know they are going to be bad from the first splash of paint. Sometimes I consider it a challenge to try and turn a bad painting into a good painting. Honestly, most paintings, for atleast a little while are bad paintings, getting over that hump is what makes them great paintings.<\/p>\n<p>This painting, I think, is pretty bad. It&#8217;s ok&#8230; It&#8217;s too busy and the colors are too similar in saturation. But at the same time, I kinda like it and think it deserves it&#8217;s day in the the sun. Who knows. maybe someone will love it. I&#8217;ll let it live atleast until open studios and see what happens. Tom gave me a very high complement last night. As we were discussing what my painting&#8217;s faults were, he said &#8220;Even your bad paintings are getting better.&#8221; I think it&#8217;s a tremendous complement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/images\/portfolio\/creative\/seacreature1_600.jpg\" target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/images\/portfolio\/creative\/seacreature1_300.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t talk badly about a painting I hope to sell, but still, it&#8217;s my journal and I need to write about these things. This is an encaustic painting I did today when I had no plan. Sometimes I have to paint a bad painting just to try and figure out what makes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}