{"id":15332,"date":"2021-07-13T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=15332"},"modified":"2021-11-19T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:19:07","slug":"weathered-backside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/15332","title":{"rendered":"Tillie\u2019s unpainted facade"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat happens if we like a piece of art or hate a piece of art? Nothing. The art is still the same; it hasn\u2019t changed. If we can realize that our judgments are not the truth, but a way to keep from telling the truth, then we begin the process of discovering what our truth is and putting that on the page.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Fonda Clark Haight<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I started this miniature in a friend\u2019s yard three weeks ago and cut myself off in the studio yesterday when the indoor work equaled the time expended on location. I wanted to keep the ratio to 50%\/50%, a standard limitation we use for our annual <em>En Plein Air<\/em> exhibition. I\u2019m fond of this piece, even though it will always look unfinished to me. I could\u2019ve continued to refine it with more texture and details, but I had to keep in mind that it was more about the process than an end result. I learned something that day at Tillie\u2019s about responding with paper to what I observed before me, in preparation for the \u201cPaint the Town\u201d time crunch. There was too much character in that old garage to fully capture anyway. Our fellow PAACK member has left the rear of that particular structure unpainted and speckled with antique tools \u2014 all for the benefit of local artists. Not a big mystery for anyone who knows Tillie!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Dixon_WeatheredBackside.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Dixon_WeatheredBackside.jpg\" title=\"Weathered Backside ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 356px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 44px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Weathered Backside<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n50% \/ 50% \u2014 site to studio<br \/>\n7.75 x 7.75 inches<br \/>\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat happens if we like a piece of art or hate a piece of art? Nothing. The art is still the same; it hasn\u2019t changed. If we can realize that our judgments are not the truth, but a way to keep from telling the truth, then we begin the process of discovering what our truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,216,8,18,249],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15332"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15699,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15332\/revisions\/15699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}