{"id":138,"date":"2007-02-01T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2007-02-23T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T18:24:21","slug":"painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started going to life class again, but this time I&#8217;ve signed up for a course of painting.\u00c2\u00a0 I usually draw with pencil, and the idea of trying to work in brushes and paint scared me, so I figured I had to give it a go.\u00c2\u00a0 I had the second session yesterday and I&#8217;m really enjoying it &#8211; it&#8217;s difficult, but great fun!\u00c2\u00a0 The tutor is evil though (ok, really he&#8217;s a nice bloke called <a title=\"About Robin Jones\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artspacegalway.com\/artistdetail.asp?id=20\" target=\"_blank\">Robin<\/a>), yesterday he took my small size 6 brush off me, and fished through my brushes until he came up with a fairly coarse 1\/2 inch flat brush.\u00c2\u00a0 After the brush I had been using it felt huge!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m also not allowed to use a pencil to do a sketch beforehand any more 8O.\u00c2\u00a0 I keep reminding myself &#8216;I wanted a challenge, I wanted a challenge&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started going to life class again, but this time I&#8217;ve signed up for a course of painting.\u00c2\u00a0 I usually draw with pencil, and the idea of trying to work in brushes and paint scared me, so I figured I had to give it a go.\u00c2\u00a0 I had the second session yesterday and I&#8217;m really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}