{"id":1695,"date":"2006-11-05T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/11\/05\/art-everyday-month-day-5-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:26","slug":"art-everyday-month-day-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/11\/05\/art-everyday-month-day-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Every Day Month &#8211; Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/289871266\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/101\/289871266_4e924c2ee3.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"500\" alt=\"art everyday month 06 - day 5 -  a squirrely perspective\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center>&#8220;A Squirrely Perspective&#8221; \/ 11 x 14&#8243; Bristol vellum paper with oil pastel<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I really wasn&#8217;t sure what to create today. I started with some boxes that I wanted to paint. I gessoed them, and since they had to dry I decided to draw. I could only find my small oil pastel set (12), which made this a challenge, but it was one I welcomed. I had no idea what to draw. I began with the ochre crayon and drew several horizontal lines. After staring at this for awhile with no inspiration, I turned the paper vertically and drew more lines. This became the trunk of a tree. My left brain turned off and I just let my hand do whatever it felt to do. In the end I saw that I had drawn as if I were high in a tree, and I thought of the squirrels I saw on the hike at Muir Woods and what a view they must have. I had a couple of hours of pure fun &#8212; I always do when I make stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Squirrely Perspective&#8221; \/ 11 x 14&#8243; Bristol vellum paper with oil pastel I really wasn&#8217;t sure what to create today. I started with some boxes that I wanted to paint. I gessoed them, and since they had to dry I decided to draw. I could only find my small oil pastel set (12), which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11461,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}