{"id":387,"date":"2014-02-23T21:44:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T02:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2022-03-02T18:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T23:42:50","slug":"winter-birch-forest-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/winter-birch-forest-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Birch Forest Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first <a title=\"Winter Birch Forest with Chickadees\" href=\"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/portfolio\/winter-birch-forest-with-chickadees\/\">Winter Birch Forest<\/a> Painting sold almost immediately. It has gotten more feedback than any painting I have done so far, and it was painted to specific requirements of the interior designer for the space it was to hang. So when it sold, I knew I had to expand the series and do a new Winter Birch Forest painting. Ultimately I plan to do a &#8220;Birch Forest&#8221; series encompassing multiple paintings in all four seasons. I really enjoy conceptualizing these birch forests, and choosing the birds to put in them. The choices are usually influenced by the birds I have been observing out my window the days prior to painting, and this time our resident downy woodpecker has been making the rounds.<\/p>\n<p>I filmed the painting of both of these paintings and with some luck will be putting up a time-lapse video of the first of these on YouTube soon for those who would like to see how I approach these. Its possible I will do a short teal-time demonstration of how I paint the birch trunks with a little more detail. Its my goal to share how I learn and paint with anyone who is interested, as that is how I learn myself.<\/p>\n<p>This painting is 16&#8243; x 40&#8243; x 2&#8243; and the painting extends around the edges. It is currently on display at the Mad River Barn Inn and Restaurant in Waitsfield Vermont for anyone passing through.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed painting it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first Winter Birch Forest Painting sold almost immediately. It has gotten more feedback than any painting I have done so far, and it was painted to specific requirements of the interior designer for the space it was to hang. So when it sold, I knew I had to expand the series and do a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/winter-birch-forest-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter Birch Forest Series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birch-series","category-landscape","category-portfolio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/winter-birch-forest-21.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7IfEJ-6f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/creativewatersart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}