{"id":16530,"date":"2022-09-14T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=16530"},"modified":"2023-01-01T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T19:04:10","slug":"her-back-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/16530","title":{"rendered":"Her Back Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDon\u2019t come a-knockin\u2019 around my door
\nDon\u2019t wanna see your shadow no more
\nColoured lights can hypnotize
\nSparkle someone else\u2019s eyes.\u201d
\n\u2014 B L Cummings<\/a>
\n \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Here\u2019s a recent plein air collage of mine that\u2019s on display in the conference center exhibition presented by the Arts Commission of Danville \/ Boyle County at Constitution Square. I consider this in the category of \u201cminiature house portraits,\u201d which would pose challenges in any medium. Working with paper (particularly when outside) makes for a tricky process of interpreting proper perspective. It\u2019s been suggested that I didn\u2019t nail the vanishing points with this one, even though I completed most of the architectural treatments in the studio. <\/p>\n

Harlan Hubbard thought that, \u201ca painting, to be good, must be done with dash and abandonment, even one which has meticulous detail. If one niggles over it, the result is dull and lifeless.\u201d It\u2019s a danger for any artist to \u201cniggle\u201d or \u201cnoodle\u201d at the expense of the overall expression. I haven\u2019t convinced myself that it didn\u2019t happen with this one, even though a plein air painter that I admire<\/a> thinks otherwise. It has something to do with my intentionally introducing a contrast of crisp detail and soft ambiguity \u2014 with a debatable degree of success. I guess that the \u201ceye of the beholder\u201d has to take it from here. Without a doubt, I haven\u2019t confronted this difficulty for the last time.<\/p>\n

 
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Her Back Door<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage en plein air<\/em> by J A Dixon
\n7.125 x 9 inches
\n50:50 site\/studio
\navailable for purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDon\u2019t come a-knockin\u2019 around my door Don\u2019t wanna see your shadow no more Coloured lights can hypnotize Sparkle someone else\u2019s eyes.\u201d \u2014 B L Cummings   Here\u2019s a recent plein air collage of mine that\u2019s on display in the conference center exhibition presented by the Arts Commission of Danville \/ Boyle County at Constitution Square. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,260,168,216,8,643,249],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530"}],"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=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16981,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions\/16981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}