{"id":15490,"date":"2021-10-29T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:36:49","slug":"cave-spring-2019-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/15490","title":{"rendered":"Cave Spring  |  2019-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe most important thing <br \/>a painter can do is find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_JADatCaveSpring_ig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_JADatCaveSpring_ig.jpg\" title=\"Too steep a descent for portable chairs, so a fallen tree served as my seat for that day in 2019. (Thanks for this portrait, \u2018Sister\u2019 Gilpin!)\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" \/ hspace=\"22\" vspace=11\" align=right \/><\/a><br \/>a good place to sit.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 J.E.H. MacDonald<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I started this miniature on location in 2019, deep into a hollow that reveals a natural site which offered the only large amount of \u201crefrigeration\u201d available to Kentucky pioneers in the region. My vision for a final look required more indoor time than could ever meet a qualification for <em>en plein air.<\/em> Paper can be a stern schoolmaster in the studio at times, and I\u2019ve been known to get prickly under his tutelage, but Mother Nature smiles when I \u201creturn home.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring_start_ig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring_start_ig.jpg\" title=\"Cave Spring (starting a collage landscape in the woods) ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"207\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring_start_ig.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring_start_ig-300x304.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a> &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring_interim_ig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring_interim_ig.jpg\" title=\"Cave Spring (location work completed) ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"207\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring_interim_ig.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring_interim_ig-300x304.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 83%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 196px; margin-bottom: -5px; color: #993300; padding-left: 25px;\" align=\"left\"><em>(above, left)<\/em> A collage \u2018start\u2019 in the woods taking shape on my clipboard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 83%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: -11px; color: #993300; padding-left: 25px;\" align=\"left\"><em>(above, right)<\/em> The completed location work fell short of a finished landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Dixon_CaveSpring.jpg\" title=\"Cave Spring ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"400\" height=\"412\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 433px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: gray; padding-left: 33px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Cave Spring<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\nstarted on location \/ finished indoors<br \/>\n7.25 x 7.5 inches<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: #CC3333; padding-left: 33px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022&nbsp; S O L D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe most important thing a painter can do is find<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,216,18,249],"tags":[626,90,308,316,317,557,313,418,318,96,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490"}],"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=15490"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16565,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions\/16565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}