{"id":207,"date":"2013-09-05T20:06:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2013-12-05T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:13:17","slug":"portraits-in-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/portraits-in-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits in Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whoo. Now we’re going back in time to 2004. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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“Modal, African-American Woman”
\nOil on canvas, 2004<\/p>\n

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“Self-Portrait”
\nOil on canvas, 2004<\/p>\n

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I painted these portraits during my time at Temple University in my Intro to Painting class. It was a long road leading up to these pieces I have to say. It was my first time working in oils, and they are not easy nor low-maintenance. The incessant dipping of the brush in linseed oil, then the paint, then the turpentine to clean it admittedly drove me crazy. So instead, I used my palette knife to paint my canvases, and I had much more success in using the colors to build my images, not draw them on the canvas like a pencil.<\/p>\n

To this day I’m really proud of these pieces, especially at how I was able to capture the emotion in the faces. As you can see, I was particularly pensive the day I did my self-portrait since I was staring at myself in the mirror while I was painting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoo. Now we’re going back in time to 2004. \ud83d\ude42 “Modal, African-American Woman” Oil on canvas, 2004 “Self-Portrait” Oil on canvas, 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-art-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashleyparkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}