{"id":273,"date":"2013-02-19T08:11:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T08:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/?p=273"},"modified":"2013-02-19T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T08:21:06","slug":"painting-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/painting-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working on a tiny 6&#215;9 watercolor block loosens the tightness&#8230;Choosing a few small objects and holding each one in my hand as I sketch is calming&#8230;The unimposing size and familiarity of subject warms my brain,\u00a0 readies me to face large, more complex work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-276\" title=\"paint &amp; pear\" src=\"http:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/paint-pear-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/paint-pear-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/paint-pear-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/paint-pear.jpg 1858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Painting small leaves lots of breathing room&#8230;Quick and freeing, these exercises open the flow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-279\" title=\"paint brush &amp; dish\" src=\"http:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/paint-brush-dish1-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"622\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on a tiny 6&#215;9 watercolor block loosens the tightness&#8230;Choosing a few small objects and holding each one in my hand as I sketch is calming&#8230;The unimposing size and familiarity of subject warms my brain,\u00a0 readies me to face large, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/painting-small\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}