{"id":17780,"date":"2019-04-11T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=17780"},"modified":"2019-04-11T20:14:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T03:14:39","slug":"painting-a-portrait-of-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/painting-a-portrait-of-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting a Portrait of My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mix Hart, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I can’t wait until it’s complete…I have to give you a sneak peek at something I’m working on: a digital-oil portrait of my youngest daughter, Pippi. I am almost finished her face–I always paint the face first when I paint a portrait, because if it doesn’t look like my muse, what is the point?<\/p>\n

Pippi’s lips are ruby red as she will be holding a cherry popsicle. The painting will be fairly large: 3 feet in length. Now that the face is nearly complete (just a little more work), the rest of the painting should flow more quickly.<\/p>\n

I have painted each daughter’s portrait when she was an infant or toddler. After a decade, I have finally made the time to paint my youngest daughter’s toddlerhood portrait.<\/p>\n

Painting and writing are very different creative activities for me. I can write when I’m tired or feeling unwell because one can write anywhere: at Starbucks or even propped up in bed with a fever. With writing, I know I can clean it up later when I’m feeling better. However, with painting, it’s surgery: I stand and hold my brush precisely and make precise marks on the canvas. There is no cleaning it up later–sloppy brushstrokes ruin the painting. I have to be on top of my game for each brush stroke–no more Starbucks for me!<\/p>\n

I’ll post the finished canvas as soon as it is completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t wait until it’s complete…I have to give you a sneak peek at something I’m working on: a digital-oil portrait of my youngest daughter, Pippi. I am almost finished her face–I always paint the face first when I paint … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[2271,2392,673,3620,3619,3621],"class_list":["post-17780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts","category-motherhood","tag-digital-oil-painting","tag-digital-painting","tag-painting","tag-painting-children","tag-portrait-painting","tag-writers-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":17,"label":"Creative"},{"value":24,"label":"Motherhood"}],"post_tag":[{"value":2271,"label":"digital oil painting"},{"value":2392,"label":"digital painting"},{"value":673,"label":"painting"},{"value":3620,"label":"Painting children"},{"value":3619,"label":"portrait painting"},{"value":3621,"label":"writers life"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-11-at-11_Fotor.png",657,657,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"mixhart","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/author\/mixhart\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":17,"name":"Creative","slug":"crafts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":86,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":17,"category_count":86,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Creative","category_nicename":"crafts","category_parent":0},{"term_id":24,"name":"Motherhood","slug":"motherhood","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":734,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":24,"category_count":734,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Motherhood","category_nicename":"motherhood","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":2271,"name":"digital oil painting","slug":"digital-oil-painting","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2330,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2392,"name":"digital painting","slug":"digital-painting","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2452,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":673,"name":"painting","slug":"painting","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":673,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3620,"name":"Painting children","slug":"painting-children","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3667,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3619,"name":"portrait painting","slug":"portrait-painting","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3666,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3621,"name":"writers life","slug":"writers-life","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3668,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17794,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions\/17794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}