{"id":304,"date":"2010-02-22T18:49:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:19:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:19:50","slug":"early-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/early-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Early blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been uncharacteristically warm this winter in Vancouver, and it&#8217;s not yet even spring but many of the cherry blossoms are already in full bloom.\u00a0 It feels a bit like we&#8217;ve skipped a couple of months ahead in time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rosesathome.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"305\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/early-blooms\/rosesathome\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rosesathome.jpg?fit=851%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"851,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rosesathome\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A quick study of roses in bloom&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rosesathome.jpg?fit=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rosesathome.jpg?fit=851%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305   \" title=\"rosesathome\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rosesathome.jpg?resize=429%2C340\" alt=\"A study of roses in bloom\" width=\"429\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rosesathome.jpg?w=851&amp;ssl=1 851w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rosesathome.jpg?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quick study of roses in bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month I worked on the above painting(s).\u00a0 It tooks me a few hours over two days, and it was a colour study and sketch to loosen up my painting a bit.\u00a0 I like how it turned out, so the set of four are now in frames on my living room wall.\u00a0 The canvases are 16&#8243; x 20&#8243; each, oil on canvas.\u00a0 They add a nice punch of colour to the walls, and it&#8217;s almost like looking out a window onto a bright sunny day when we do get those rainy gray days in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Painting miniatures and larger detailed work can make my paintings feel very tight if I don&#8217;t work looser once in a while.\u00a0 So this painting was a quick study to help me do just that.\u00a0 While it&#8217;s still a few months early for roses to be out, with how things are going now, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if we saw roses coming up in April!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been uncharacteristically warm this winter in Vancouver, and it&#8217;s not yet even spring but many of the cherry blossoms are already in full bloom.\u00a0 It feels a bit like we&#8217;ve skipped a couple of months ahead in time&#8230; Last month I worked on the above painting(s).\u00a0 It tooks me a few hours over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-with-sidebar","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[263,275,15,50,48,49,40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}