{"id":813,"date":"2018-12-31T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2024-09-13T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:16:56","slug":"2018-a-year-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/2018-a-year-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"2018: A Year of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been experimenting with assorted materials that have been sitting in my closet, some of which go back to my RISD days. The price for 25 sticks of Winsor Charcoal was $2.75 at Pearl Paint! Here\u2019s a sampling of the resulting work. I\u2019m wondering if my anxiety about the current state of the country and world is reflected in the drawings (most recent first).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1471\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/2018-a-year-of-art\/abstract-string-color\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181230_abstract_string_color-1.jpg?fit=1080%2C809&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,809\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Emily Sper&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Emily Sper 2018&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;Abstract String 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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;\\u00a9 Emily Sper 2018&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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20181229_abstract_string_bw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181229_abstract_string_bw.jpg?fit=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181229_abstract_string_bw.jpg?fit=840%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-816\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181229_abstract_string_bw.jpg?resize=840%2C639\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181229_abstract_string_bw.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181229_abstract_string_bw.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181229_abstract_string_bw.jpg?resize=768%2C585&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181229_abstract_string_bw.jpg?resize=1024%2C779&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"821\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/2018-a-year-of-art\/sper_2018_watercolor_circles\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sper_2018_watercolor_circles.jpg?fit=1080%2C813&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,813\" 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;\\u00a9 Emily Sper 2018&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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sper_2018_watercolor_circles\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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The price for 25 sticks of Winsor Charcoal was $2.75 at Pearl Paint! Here\u2019s a sampling of the resulting work. I\u2019m wondering if my anxiety about the current state of the country and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/2018-a-year-of-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2018: A Year of Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,113,112,111,110,109],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abstract","tag-color","tag-fine-art","tag-fine-art-photography","tag-mixed-media","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7v1ZG-d7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}