{"id":17981,"date":"2024-03-25T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2024-06-05T13:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:33:53","slug":"17981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/17981","title":{"rendered":"Capturing an Arcadian Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI have learned to expect nothing of the weather<br \/>\nbut what it gives us.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Rockwell Kent<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last September at nearby Arcadia Farm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Dixon_Arcadian_interim.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I fell under the spell of a horizon and stuck with the mood of early-morning clouds for the rest of the session.<\/a> With the prevailing heat, other members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?s=PAACK\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PAACK<\/em><\/a> may have been praying for more breeze, but I was grateful for hours of no wind. I wasn\u2019t even using clothespins! I wanted to interpret the viewscape as that huge land grant might\u2019ve looked to the original Shelby family in the 1700s. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Dixon_Arcadian_siteWork.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Although pleased with the result that I took home<\/a>, I knew I wanted to make studio additions at the base of the artwork before declaring it ready for a signature. And so here we are, March of 2024. As I look ahead to a new season of taking collage outside, it made sense to finally complete the studio refinements on one of my favorite landscapes from 2023. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dixon_ArcadianSky.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dixon_ArcadianSky.jpg\" title=\"Arcadian Sky ~ collage en plein air by J A Dixon\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dixon_ArcadianSky.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dixon_ArcadianSky-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Dixon_ArcadianSky-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 295px; margin-bottom: 27px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Arcadian Sky<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage en plein air by J A Dixon<br \/>\n11.375 x 7.875 inches<br \/>\navailable to collectors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have learned to expect nothing of the weather but what it gives us.\u201d \u2014 Rockwell Kent &nbsp; Last September at nearby Arcadia Farm, I fell under the spell of a horizon and stuck with the mood of early-morning clouds for the rest of the session. With the prevailing heat, other members of the PAACK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,216,18,249,246],"tags":[322,90,308,316,317,557,313,352,418,318,639,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981"}],"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=17981"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18046,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions\/18046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}