{"id":310,"date":"2017-04-23T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-10-26T21:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T21:14:50","slug":"back-to-plein-air-watercolor-sketching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/23\/back-to-plein-air-watercolor-sketching\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Plein Air Watercolor Sketching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After taking a break from plein air painting this winter, the watercolors and easel are back out! Here are my first two watercolor sketches for the spring &#8211; urban park scenes. They both depict how man-made things and growing things (as in, plants) combine to create beauty in the city. I like to think of the city as a big garden instead of a wasteland. In places, it is. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fullsizeoutput_fcb.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fullsizeoutput_fcb-203x300.jpeg\" width=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lincoln Park, Jersey City, NJ, 5&#8243;x7&#8243; Watercolor &amp; Colored Pencil<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FullSizeRender-207x300.jpg\" width=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Madison Square Park, Manhattan, 5&#8243;x7&#8243; Watercolor &amp; Colored Pencil<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After taking a break from plein air painting this winter, the watercolors and easel are back out! Here are my first two watercolor sketches for the spring &#8211; urban park scenes. They both depict how man-made things and growing things (as in, plants) combine to create beauty in the city. I like to think of the city as a big&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/23\/back-to-plein-air-watercolor-sketching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back to Plein Air Watercolor Sketching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}