{"id":256,"date":"2005-11-17T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/silvery-beautiful-birch-trees\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T19:41:00","slug":"silvery-beautiful-birch-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/silvery-beautiful-birch-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Silvery, Beautiful Birch Trees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have quite a sudden fascination with birch trees. Maybe because I recently read &#8220;Ogam, the Celtic Oracle of the Trees&#8221; and learned lots of enchanting tree lore. Birch trees are so pretty with their papery silver\/ white bark. They usually grow at the forests edge, where they can soak up spots of the suns warm rays.  So, this week&#8217;s art theme was&#8230;birch trees! Heres a plethora of some of my paintings. The ideas just seem to flow while I sketch from little images in my head. The ones of the girl wrapped up in the cozy blanket (me!) was inspired by a sketch by Klimt. More on the way! Watercolor, metallic and painty markers and pigma pens.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/051117.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have quite a sudden fascination with birch trees. Maybe because I recently read &#8220;Ogam, the Celtic Oracle of the Trees&#8221; and learned lots of enchanting tree lore. Birch trees are so pretty with their papery silver\/ white bark. They usually grow at the forests edge, where they can soak up spots of the suns &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/silvery-beautiful-birch-trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silvery, Beautiful Birch Trees!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}