{"id":3378,"date":"2012-01-02T22:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T06:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2016-01-25T23:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T07:31:04","slug":"new-years-day-painters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=3378","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Day Painters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery89\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-3 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6938-800px-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6938-800px-1-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6938-800px-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6938-800px-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6939-800px-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6939-800px-1-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6939-800px-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6939-800px-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6919-800px-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6919-800px-1-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6919-800px-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6919-800px-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6919-800px-1-365x365.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>I brought in the new year working on several paintings, and taking the children on a very long walk in the wind to the playground. Trudging up steep hills pushing both of them in the Phil &amp; Ted&#8217;s was enough to just about do me in. But this won&#8217;t be a post full of fitness resolutions or new year&#8217;s reflection; I haven&#8217;t made it that far yet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3327\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6936-800px.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6936-800px-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"Landscape of my memory by Nancy Hildebrand; in progress\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6936-800px-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mg_6936-800px.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Landscape of my memory by Nancy Hildebrand; in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I was thinking about art, my four-year-old was at work writing her first book. She is starting to remind me so much of myself at that age, when I used to do the same thing while visiting my Grandma next door, sitting at the desk in front of the window.<\/p>\n<p>After my last post, I came to another grinding halt on this painting. As Anne of Green Gables would put it, I was in the depths of despair. Nothing about the piece was working. But yesterday I spent a lot of time cleaning the sections up and moving forward on several other paintings. I was feeling pretty pleased with it until I realized that the puddle at the top left currently looks like a fried egg! There are also other parts that need reworking, such as the field at the bottom left and the middle right area (my grandparents&#8217; yard, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering how I would portray our woods, which is situated at the top left of the piece. The painting is kind of an aerial view, but I didn&#8217;t want to limit it to being a realistic green bushy lump that you might see on a satellite view. After looking through magazines and other materials, I found this post card from 1907 of a woods from my Great Grandmother&#8217;s collection, which seemed to fit right in. The sheet music reflects the postcard&#8217;s colour and time period.<\/p>\n<p>This is another detail I added to speak more to the use of the land over time. I believe that is my Great Grandfather and his brother with a mound of straw at threshing time. You can see there are a lot of other artifacts collaged in. Overall, there is more to be gotten out of the details of this painting than the whole. My process of becoming a painter seems to involve a lot of pieces that are trying to say everything. I hope I will see a transition this year in my work of simplifying and getting a stronger focus to my paintings. At the end of the day, this is just how my paintings seem to end up, no matter where I start. I can&#8217;t shake the need for texture and adding elements of the farm, the landscape that grounded me as a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I brought in the new year working on several paintings, and taking the children on a very long walk in the wind to the playground. Trudging up steep hills pushing both of them in the Phil &amp; Ted&#8217;s was enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=3378\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29,36],"tags":[99,136,639,722,725],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-creative-2","category-parenting-2","tag-art","tag-artwork","tag-mixed-media-painting","tag-painting","tag-painting-with-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}