{"id":21,"date":"2010-11-19T05:41:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T05:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2010-11-19T05:47:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T05:47:36","slug":"video-gallery-opens-with-my-bonny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2010\/11\/19\/video-gallery-opens-with-my-bonny\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Gallery Opens with &#8220;My Bonny&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2010\/11\/19\/video-gallery-opens-with-my-bonny\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Happy Friday art lovers! While the look and feel of my website is still a work in progress, today I announce the grand opening of the video gallery! (Hold your applause) The video gallery will be the home of short films that I create that contain art related material. Some features will be small thoughts on upcoming projects, others will be a post-mortem on recently completed projects, and then there will be films that are painting session peek-ins that take you from the beginning to the end of one of my paintings.<\/p>\n<p>That is the content of the first video. In episode 1, \u201cMy Bonny\u201d, you will see how I just recently completed my latest work. It\u2019s a dog portrait of my puppy \u2013 her name is Bonny. While the painting is the focus of the film, Bonny does make an appearance or two. Actually when I started painting her, I found out that she doesn\u2019t like the sound of a brush hitting the canvas. She tried on more than one occasion to jump up on the easel. Perhaps she was trying to tell me that I made her nose too big or her ears too long. Eh, everyone\u2019s a critic and she knows where she gets her food so if she knows what\u2019s good for her she will just keep quiet \u2013 but I digress. The painting spanned over 2 weeks but only took about 5 days worth of work. I was ill during those weeks so painting was difficult and I find it to be a bad idea to paint when ill. Overall I am happy with the portrait. I did make her look proud and regal as I like the old classical portrait look. But make no mistake about it \u2013 she is a fire cracker and if you don\u2019t keep your eye on her at all times you might lose a sock or two.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second dog portrait I have done (check out \u201cLittle Skipper\u201d). I enjoy these animal portraits because it feels like I can capture a moment in time that sparks many fond memories of a pet. That is how I felt when my wife Rachel commissioned an artist to do a portrait of my childhood dog Spot. I had tears in my eyes when I saw the painting because my mind went immediately to 1984 when I was 7 years old and we had just brought home our new dog for the first time. I figure 20 years from now I will have similar feelings looking at this painting that I did of Bonny.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy this painting and I hope the video is interesting for you. I like watching other artists because I find the creation process fascinating. When an artist goes from a white canvas of nothing to a fully realized vision then I just think it\u2019s a amazing thing. That is one of the reasons I loved watching <em>The Joy of Painting<\/em> with Bob Ross. He inspired me as a kid that I could not only be a painter, but that I could do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the look of the site is still under consideration, but the content will keep on coming. I have to put aside those perfectionist tendencies when designing something otherwise it never sees the light of day. Thanks for checking it out and more to follow. See ya soon!<\/p>\n<p>Go to the videos tab or click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/videos.htm\">My Bonny<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday art lovers! While the look and feel of my website is still a work in progress, today I announce the grand opening of the video gallery! (Hold your applause) The video gallery will be the home of short films that I create that contain art related material. Some features will be small thoughts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2010\/11\/19\/video-gallery-opens-with-my-bonny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video Gallery Opens with &#8220;My Bonny&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}