{"id":591,"date":"2014-06-24T06:40:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T06:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/?p=591"},"modified":"2018-06-14T20:52:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:52:21","slug":"jun23-a-portrait-from-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/jun23-a-portrait-from-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Jun23: A portrait from James"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, out of the blue, James entered the kitchen with Hazel under his arm.\u00a0 “I’m drawing Hazel,” he said, reaching for some paper.\u00a0 “Let me get you a clean piece,” I said.\u00a0 “It’ll scan better.”\u00a0 Away we go.<\/h1>\n

I was excited when James brought Hazel – who is a stuffed koala, by the way – into the kitchen this morning to draw her.\u00a0 Hazel was excited, too.<\/p>\n

James’ drawings have considerably improved over the past couple of years.\u00a0 His “new age” began last summer.\u00a0 Not a technical drawer, James has the spirit of a true artist:\u00a0 he draws his subjects to reflect his feelings toward them.<\/p>\n

In our household, each stuffed animal is a distinct member of the family.\u00a0 Hourly, daily, or weekly, the animals take turns being active or passive.<\/p>\n

I love James’s drawing of Hazel. The lettering is a direction James assumed on his own. Seeing it, I told him how it increases the portrait’s meaning. Ironically, I have yet to learn to do so with my own portraits:)<\/p>\n

\"Hazel,<\/p>\n

Please drop by again soon:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, out of the blue, James entered the kitchen with Hazel under his arm.\u00a0 “I’m drawing Hazel,” he said, reaching for some paper.\u00a0 “Let me get you a clean piece,” I said.\u00a0 “It’ll scan better.”\u00a0 Away we go. I was excited when James brought Hazel – who is a stuffed koala, by the way … Continue reading “Jun23: A portrait from James”<\/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":[4],"tags":[25,22],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamess-drawings","tag-hazel-the-stuffed-koala","tag-portraits-of-stuffed-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}