{"id":6484,"date":"2014-12-23T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2014-12-23T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:11:07","slug":"the-abbey-in-oil-a-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6484","title":{"rendered":"The abbey in oil: a work in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-frank-at-work-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"848\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-frank-at-work-1.jpg\" alt=\"S-frank-at-work-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-frank-at-work-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-frank-at-work-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-frank-at-work-1-1024x723.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Frank at work<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several months ago, Ken commissioned a painting of Acorn Abbey from a local artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/frankduncanartwork.com\/\">Frank Duncan<\/a>. Frank is a celebrity in these parts. He&#8217;s also a neighbor. We asked Frank to unapologetically get in touch with his inner Thomas Kinkade and do interesting things with light and imagination. The painting will go in a rather large and very empty space above the mantel. The painting is coming along nicely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-water-color-sketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-water-color-sketch.jpg\" alt=\"S-water-color-sketch\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-water-color-sketch.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-water-color-sketch-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-water-color-sketch-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The watercolor &#8220;sketch,&#8221; which is a kind of blueprint for the oil painting. We chose a composition that emphasizes life and exuberance by putting the garden and orchard in the foreground and letting the house risk getting lost in the woods. Lots of little animals will be hidden here and there in the painting, like Easter eggs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-starting-photograph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"910\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-starting-photograph.jpg\" alt=\"S-starting-photograph\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-starting-photograph.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-starting-photograph-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S-starting-photograph-1024x776.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The photograph that was used to lay in the painting&#8217;s composition and perspective<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/A-frank-duncan-painting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"748\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/A-frank-duncan-painting.jpg\" alt=\"A-frank-duncan-painting\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/A-frank-duncan-painting.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/A-frank-duncan-painting-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A Frank Duncan painting<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank at work Several months ago, Ken commissioned a painting of Acorn Abbey from a local artist, Frank Duncan. Frank is a celebrity in these parts. He&#8217;s also a neighbor. We asked Frank to unapologetically get in touch with his inner Thomas Kinkade and do interesting things with light and imagination. The painting will go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The abbey in oil: a work in progress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}