{"id":376,"date":"2008-04-23T01:29:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T01:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/whoa-is-been-awhile\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T01:33:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T01:33:57","slug":"whoa-is-been-awhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/whoa-is-been-awhile\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoa it&#8217;s been awhile!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe how time flew by! A little break turns into a month of nonposting. For me this spring is a time of new directions, capturing ideas&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080422_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nWhat a beautiful Earth Day! Today I walked for miles to sit by the pond and gaze into the water and just be. The water&#8217;s surface was like a giantic looking glass for the sky, the tree branches and red-winged blackbirds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnbirdsongs.com\/birdsong.php?id=25\">Their song<\/a> is my favorite. Look below and you might see one on the tree&#8217;s branches.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080422_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThings will unfold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080422_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080422_4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSitting on the roots of a willow tree I picked dandelions and little yellow flowers and played with configurations on my hands like henna designs that came alive. As the tiny buds floated across the water I thought of things that hold me back, keep me from being creative, keep me from painting. From there I ran the whole way home. And I painted the afternoon in my sketchbook with watercolors and in oils on a wooden panel. It&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>\nThese have been sitting in my studio for some time, new directions I set up in an inspiring little shrine-like fashion. . I am so excited about all of these.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080422_5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nPainting the grisaille layer in burnt umber and titanium white this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080422_6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nEveryday small pleasures<\/p>\n<p>\n? moroccan mint green tea, iced<br \/>\n? the sound of silver bangle bracelets (like little bells)<br \/>\n? blues, greens and grays<br \/>\n? rubbing magnolia petals between my fingers til they tear apart (they are so soft!)<br \/>\n? the beach and searching for shells and shiney things in the sand<br \/>\n? being 29!<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd yesterday was my birthday so we spent a beautiful day together roadtripping.  The beach being one of our first stops, then searching for thrift clothes (hooray I found a pretty dress and some shirts!) meandering around the campus at Princeton and then to a sushi dinner. Yesterday, a perfect gray beach day:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/080422_7.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe first full day of being 29 was beautiful!<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe how time flew by! A little break turns into a month of nonposting. For me this spring is a time of new directions, capturing ideas&#8230;. What a beautiful Earth Day! Today I walked for miles to sit by the pond and gaze into the water and just be. The water&#8217;s surface was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/whoa-is-been-awhile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whoa it&#8217;s been awhile!&#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":[11,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-paintings","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}