{"id":930,"date":"2018-04-12T14:49:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/?p=930"},"modified":"2018-04-15T13:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T17:05:29","slug":"invitation-support-me-on-patreon-and-win-this-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2018\/04\/invitation-support-me-on-patreon-and-win-this-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation: Support me on Patreon and win this painting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the beginning of November 2017, I launched my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/JohnAzelvandre\">Patreon page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nTe5iVCUru\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2017\/11\/introducing-my-new-patreon-page\/\">Introducing my New Patreon Page!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Introducing my New Patreon Page!&#8221; &#8212; The Eye of the Artist\" src=\"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2017\/11\/introducing-my-new-patreon-page\/embed\/#?secret=5SPitw2a6n#?secret=nTe5iVCUru\" data-secret=\"nTe5iVCUru\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s off to a very good start, and for some time now, I&#8217;ve entertained the idea of raffling off some of my paintings to patrons. \u00a0But in order for that to be really fun and interesting and worthwhile, I need more patrons. \u00a0So, I&#8217;m making an offer: I will raffle off this painting to patrons if and when I get at least 10 active patrons on my Patreon page. \u00a0Your patronage can be at any level, so for just one dollar per month, you could have a chance to win this painting:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-644\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"644\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2016\/02\/a-new-year-well-underway-lifeworlds-continues\/skull-sketch-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1452636710&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Skull-sketch-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A quick sketch to check out the new painting setup, January 2016&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg?resize=1000%2C1000\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Skull-sketch-1.jpg?resize=768%2C768 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quick sketch to check out the new painting setup, January 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Note that I already have, at this moment, \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><del>4\u00a0<\/del><\/span>\u00a05 patrons, so we are <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><del>almost<\/del><\/span> half way there! Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/become-my-patron-18140397\">the video<\/a> I have made promoting this raffle!<\/p>\n<p>I envision doing more raffles in the future, perhaps on a quarterly basis. \u00a0So this is just to get the ball rolling. \u00a0There are, of course, many other rewards for patronage on Patreon, so check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/JohnAzelvandre\">my page<\/a> to learn all about it!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks and now I will get down to making more art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the beginning of November 2017, I launched my Patreon page: Introducing my New Patreon Page! It&#8217;s off to a very good start, and for some time now, I&#8217;ve entertained the idea of raffling off some of my paintings to patrons. \u00a0But in order for that to be really fun and interesting and worthwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2,11],"tags":[3,7,20,21,114,115],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-art","tag-announcements","tag-art","tag-oil","tag-painting","tag-patreon","tag-raffle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zpKF-f0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":881,"url":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2017\/11\/introducing-my-new-patreon-page\/","url_meta":{"origin":930,"position":0},"title":"Introducing my New Patreon Page!","author":"John Azelvandre","date":"November 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank you to everyone who came out to see my work at the recent Gowanus Open Studios. 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