{"id":665,"date":"2003-09-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/?p=665"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:00:59","slug":"pre-painting-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/2003\/09\/01\/pre-painting-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-painting rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take a look at how you prepare yourself for painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, if you&#8217;re going through a bit of a bad patch, it may be that your pre-painting rituals &#8211; the system of preparation before you settle down to paint, need tuning. This doesn&#8217;t mean you have to slaughter a lamb or the family pet in order to create art, it just means acknowledging the pattern of behaviour, the little things we have to do in order to feel comfortable &#8211; an important ingredient for success in watercolour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me, it&#8217;s the systematic cleaning of my palette and brushes (since I&#8217;m rather in the habit of not cleaning my brushes at the end of a session, this is probably a good thing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at how you prepare yourself for painting. Sometimes, if you&#8217;re going through a bit of a bad patch, it may be that your pre-painting rituals &#8211; the system of preparation before you settle down to paint, need tuning. This doesn&#8217;t mean you have to slaughter a lamb or the family pet in order to create art, it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","category-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}