{"id":239,"date":"2008-05-08T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T21:32:40","slug":"dragonflies-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/dragonflies-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonflies in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to water the garden this morning, and was greeted by lots of dragonflies in our backyard. It was so magical watching the dragonflies darting here and there. What a wonderful experience!<\/p>\n<p>Later back in my studio I began working on a painting, which is almost finished. There are still a few areas which need work,  but it needs to dry before I can continue.<\/p>\n<p>One might ask oneself, &#8220;Is a painting ever finished?&#8221; This is a question artists have been asking themselves for eons, and it seems as if everybody has an opinion on the subject. Personally, I agree wholeheartedly with Rembrandt, &#8220;A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I also worked on the painting Unity, and started another canvas. I felt inspired to paint a likeness of my aunt Dorothy.  All in all it was a pretty busy day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240\" title=\"auntdorothysketch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/auntdorothysketch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/auntdorothysketch.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/auntdorothysketch-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aunt Dorothy <\/strong>&#8211; Acrylic, Mixed Media- 16 X 20 inches<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-241\" title=\"unity3day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/unity3day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/unity3day.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/unity3day-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unity &#8211; <\/strong>Acrylic, Mixed Medium &#8211; 16 X 20 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to water the garden this morning, and was greeted by lots of dragonflies in our backyard. It was so magical watching the dragonflies darting here and there. What a wonderful experience! Later back in my studio I began working on a painting, which is almost finished. There are still a few areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[33,808,809,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}