{"id":67,"date":"2015-01-06T03:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T03:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-01-06T04:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T04:08:42","slug":"featured-painting-of-the-week-magnolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2015\/01\/featured-painting-of-the-week-magnolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured painting of the week &#8211; &#8220;Magnolia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m featuring a different painting each week. \u00a0To start this series off, I present to you <strong><em>Magnolia<\/em><\/strong>, an oil painting I created in May 2014. \u00a0This painting was inspired by photos I took of some lovely Magnolia trees in a city park in Manhattan. The color palette is very simple: white, black, green, pink and blue. The painting is 12 inches square and the composition is very much about the square (the square being a favorite motif of mine over the past several years).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/A20140507-800px.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"68\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2015\/01\/featured-painting-of-the-week-magnolia\/a20140507-800px\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/A20140507-800px.jpg?fit=800%2C800\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D60&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1401304326&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A20140507-800px\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Magnolia, oil on canvas, 12&amp;#215;12&amp;#8243;, 2014&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/A20140507-800px.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/A20140507-800px.jpg?fit=800%2C800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/A20140507-800px.jpg?resize=800%2C800\" alt=\"Magnolia, oil on canvas, 12x12&quot;, 2014\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/A20140507-800px.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/A20140507-800px.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/A20140507-800px.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Magnolia<\/em>, oil on canvas, 12&#215;12&#8243;, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This painting is for sale and is listed on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/217223132\/magnolia-original-oil-painting\">Etsy Shop<\/a>!\u00a0Check it out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m featuring a different painting each week. \u00a0To start this series off, I present to you Magnolia, an oil painting I created in May 2014. \u00a0This painting was inspired by photos I took of some lovely Magnolia trees in a city park in Manhattan. The color palette is very simple: white, black, green, pink and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[7,25,10,24,20,21],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-artwork-for-sale","tag-art","tag-botanical","tag-johnazelvandre","tag-magnolia","tag-oil","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zpKF-15","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":660,"url":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2016\/05\/art-works-2016-a-benefit-for-arts-gowanus\/","url_meta":{"origin":67,"position":0},"title":"Art Works 2016 &#8211; a Benefit for Arts Gowanus","author":"John Azelvandre","date":"May 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm pleased to announce that I will be contributing to this year's Art Works -- a benefit for Arts Gowanus! \u00a0The\u00a0mission of Arts Gowanus is to promote, support and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in the Gowanus neighborhood. 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