{"id":1057,"date":"2012-02-17T23:23:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2016-01-25T23:03:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T07:03:57","slug":"daily-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"daily landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have completely abandonned my former route home for the more scenic route along the Fraser and through the countryside.It adds only a couple minutes to my commute, but this rural landscape has been restoring something in me that celebrates the land, and with that, stirs my desire to paint watercolour again.<\/p>\n

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264th barn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All year I’ve considered disciplining myself to draw every day, or a similar stunt, but I don’t have the energy or insanity to do that. But I like the concept of delighting in one thing every day, to become more joyful. So I have been mentally taking note of scenes that resonate with me. I want to start drawing them, which brings me to the sketch above.<\/p>\n

Every day as I drive by at dusk, this forlorn barn catches my eye. It is the perfectly white roof against the otherwise brown escarpment, forests and fields that first caught my. Every time I pass it, I notice something new, like one of the doors on the right is open, or the light-trunked trees off to the left, or the regularity of the fence posts in the blueberry field, or the house at the top of the cliff with a little light twinkling.<\/p>\n

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264th barn 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So when my coworker gave me this amazing book full of heavy rag paper, I knew just what to do with it. I’m going to start using it to record my memories of my current landscape. I don’t know how often this will take place or how many versions of this barn you’re going to have to look at.<\/p>\n

And may I just add, I continue to learn great things from the people around me, day-to-day, like this friend who gave me this book, just because I added a few tasks to my plate over the past couple weeks that meant a lot to her. And that she thought of me with such a nice gift means so much to me. I hope I can show my appreciation for others better as a result of her example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have completely abandonned my former route home for the more scenic route along the Fraser and through the countryside.It adds only a couple minutes to my commute, but this rural landscape has been restoring something in me that celebrates … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[161,429,582,722,835,983,985],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-nature-2","tag-barn","tag-field","tag-landscape","tag-painting","tag-rural","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}