{"id":411,"date":"2008-08-05T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T11:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/05\/bee-forest-sea\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T11:17:34","slug":"bee-forest-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/05\/bee-forest-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"honeybee forest sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A peek at a painting in progress, <i>Honeybee Sisters<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080805_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nYesterday I decided to put this painting aside and paint the pair into more of a setting with bee imagery (recently I have had a craving to paint more detailed settings as opposed to portraits). I&#8217;ve been researching bees and hives and they hold a vast amount of symbolism and meaning which is interesting. Interpret it as you will honeybees are pretty too and I love to see them buzzing around the flowers. Wasps and hornets are interesting as well but I was stung a few weeks ago and I&#8217;m still bitter!<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile I was roaming around the other day I noticed that they fungi in the moss carries similarities to certain sea treasures, white coral and sea urchin:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080805_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nHow I would love to dangle these forest sea treasures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=13784085\">from my ears.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A peek at a painting in progress, Honeybee Sisters Yesterday I decided to put this painting aside and paint the pair into more of a setting with bee imagery (recently I have had a craving to paint more detailed settings as opposed to portraits). I&#8217;ve been researching bees and hives and they hold a vast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/05\/bee-forest-sea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;honeybee forest sea&#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":[23,22,12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-nature","category-paintings","category-paintings-in-progress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}