{"id":434,"date":"2020-05-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/?p=434"},"modified":"2020-07-07T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:05:23","slug":"spending-the-afternoons-drawing-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/spending-the-afternoons-drawing-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending the afternoons drawing outside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>My sketchbook<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Liz-Salter-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Liz-Salter-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Liz-Salter-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Liz-Salter-2-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Liz-Salter-2-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Liz-Salter-2-480x288.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><em><em><em><em>Painting outside<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite now having more time to work, I have found it difficult to settle my mind to paint in the studio so I have spent the afternoons drawing outside. I am very lucky to live in the country with easy access to a patch of wild land that I have walked and drawn over many years. I am using a concertina sketchbook which allows me different formats for the drawing and I am also exploring different media including paint in order to challenge myself. This daily exercise has brought much solace and Inspiration for future painting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sketchbook Despite now having more time to work, I have found it difficult to settle my mind to paint in the studio so I have spent the afternoons drawing outside. I am very lucky to live in the country with easy access to a patch of wild land that I have walked and drawn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Spending the afternoons drawing outside - Leeds Fine Artists","description":""},"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liz-salter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}