{"id":195,"date":"2013-09-04T23:05:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2013-12-05T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:14:00","slug":"in-n-out-of-the-lehigh-valley-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/in-n-out-of-the-lehigh-valley-series\/","title":{"rendered":"“In-n-Out of the Lehigh Valley” Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Landscaping”
\nWatercolor on Collage, 4\/10\/2008<\/p>\n

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“Lehigh Valley Mall”
\nWatercolor on Collage, 4\/22\/2009<\/p>\n

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Here is a blast from my artistic past. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The Baum School of Art in Allentown hosted an art contest in 2008 where contestants had to paint a landscape based on the Lehigh Valley Area. My entry was a conceptual idea of a traditional landscape painting, but I instead painted my watercolor picture on top of a housing development blueprint collage.<\/p>\n

The year after that, the school hosted the contest again, this time with “Lehigh Valley Interior” being the theme. I used the same technique again, but the subject was the Lehigh Valley Mall painted on top of the mall map.<\/p>\n

Some additional photos here:<\/p>\n