{"id":6225,"date":"2015-11-13T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T01:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:49:29","slug":"painting-with-pieces-of-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6225","title":{"rendered":"Painting with pieces of paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time is a deterrent to painting. By the time I clear a space to work, get out and set up the paints and brushes and canvas and easel, decide what to paint, and then allow time for cleaning up and putting away – well, I need three hours to do a session of any value.<\/p>\n

And most days, I don’t have three hours to spare.<\/p>\n

So I’m really loving this “seven shapes” exercise<\/a>, which I do in about half an hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I try to do one figure, one landscape, and then just play with complementary colors and composition.<\/p>\n

Here’s my figure for today:<\/p>\n

\"Dancer\"<\/a>
Dancer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s today’s\u00a0landscape:<\/p>\n

\"Landscape\"<\/a>
Landscape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Playing with the idea of propulsion, I liked this effect:<\/p>\n

\"Propulsion\"<\/a>
Propulsion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This one was my first, instantaneous response to the today’s shapes, and I like it as well as any of the planned “paintings”:<\/p>\n

\"abstract<\/a>
Today’s abstract<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s astonishing to me how much there is to discover in this simple play.<\/p>\n

And how soothing it is. Yesterday, when I wasn’t able to even do the half-hour, I felt very irritated and deprived, as though I hadn’t had enough sleep.<\/p>\n

This kind of play is relaxing like sleep is. It allows my brain to work through ideas in a very tactile way.<\/p>\n

Day 130’s penny is a 2015, and\u00a0that’s\u00a0me, dancing in a sea of purple.<\/p>\n

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Time is a deterrent to painting. By the time I clear a space to work, get out and set up the paints and brushes and canvas and easel, decide what to paint, and then allow time for cleaning up and putting away – well, I need three hours to do a session of any value. … read more Painting with pieces of paper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[67,35,355,160,56,457,454,62],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-67","tag-art","tag-color","tag-painting","tag-paper","tag-play","tag-shapes","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}