{"id":11676,"date":"2021-08-11T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/my-birthday-girl-a-watercolour-portrait-of-my-daughter-and-a-process-video\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:55:59","slug":"my-birthday-girl-a-watercolour-portrait-of-my-daughter-and-a-process-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/my-birthday-girl-a-watercolour-portrait-of-my-daughter-and-a-process-video\/","title":{"rendered":"My Birthday Girl, a Watercolour Portrait of my Daughter and a process video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On my journey to learning watercolour, and while last week was my daughter&#8217;s birthday, I thought I would have a go at painting a portrait of her to surprise her, pleasantly I hope! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>My concept was to paint a dual toned portrait of her to keep things simple and focus on continuing to sharpen my eye for values rather than colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:49.39129%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13988\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/my-birthday-girl-a-watercolour-portrait-of-my-daughter-and-a-process-video\/img_3189-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lenochkabcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_3189.jpg?fit=557%2C747&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"557,747\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/my-birthday-girl-a-watercolour-portrait-of-my-daughter-and-a-process-video\/lenablonsky_jo-watercolour-8444-medium\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lenochkabcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lenablonsky_jo-watercolour-8444-Medium.jpeg?fit=489%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"489,640\" 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;LENOCHKA BLONSKY&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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lenablonsky_jo-watercolour-8444 Medium\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" 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data-link=\"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/my-birthday-girl-a-watercolour-portrait-of-my-daughter-and-a-process-video\/lenablonsky_jo-watercolour-8444-medium\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lenablonsky_jo-watercolour-8444-Medium.jpeg\" data-width=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/lenochkabcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lenablonsky_jo-watercolour-8444-Medium.jpeg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I also made a process video which I\u2019ve had ready for a while now but what with all the wildfires in Greece devastating the country I didn\u2019t really feel in the mood to post anything. Anyway, here we are\u2026 I\u2019m still learning watercolor portraiture and it\u2019s a lot of fun. I\u2019m also getting better at just accepting where I am, making mistakes and learning from them and simply enjoying the process. I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Birthday Girl\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xL7usL7esr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>all my best, Lenochka xx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my journey to learning watercolour, and while last week was my daughter&#8217;s birthday, I thought I would have a go at painting a portrait of her to surprise her, pleasantly I hope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403,6,417],"tags":[37,246,269,279,339],"class_list":["post-11676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-portraits-challenge","category-artwork","category-watercolour","tag-art","tag-painting","tag-portrait","tag-process","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lenochkabcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jo-watercolor.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","acf":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfwRNp-32k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenochkabcreative.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}