{"id":3046,"date":"2008-11-14T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T01:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:35:48","slug":"art-every-day-month-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/11\/14\/art-every-day-month-day-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Every Day Month &#8211; Day 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s effort was a random (and ineffective) experiment with watercolor (I <em>so<\/em> don&#8217;t know how to work with watercolor paint). I didn&#8217;t have time to really get into something and wasn&#8217;t coming up with ideas. This is the kind of creation that may someday be reincarnated into another work, <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/30\/62990738_4bb7c3e45b.jpg\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like this one, which also started as random swipes of paint<\/a> and sat for a couple of years until I saw something in it. Today&#8217;s work is the kind of art that my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/twoblueday.wordpress.com\/\">Gerry<\/a> looks askance at (a five year old could do this, there&#8217;s no real skill or technique involved, and I don&#8217;t necessarily disagree with him). This effort fits with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illustrationfriday.com\/\">Illustration Friday&#8217;s<\/a> topic <em>Pretend<\/em>. Pretend this painting is about something. Consider it a kind of Rorschach test; what do you see in it? I saw sunlight on the water of a lake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/3031105584\/\" title=\"sunlight on water - art every day month 08 - day 14 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3171\/3031105584_18899d471b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" alt=\"sunlight on water - art every day month 08 - day 14\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center>&#8220;Pretend&#8221; \/ 11&#215;15&#8243; watercolor paper with watercolor<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s effort was a random (and ineffective) experiment with watercolor (I so don&#8217;t know how to work with watercolor paint). I didn&#8217;t have time to really get into something and wasn&#8217;t coming up with ideas. This is the kind of creation that may someday be reincarnated into another work, like this one, which also started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,48,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-community","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","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=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11640,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}