{"id":648,"date":"2013-11-11T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2013-12-11T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T08:11:11","slug":"big-ideas-in-small-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2013\/11\/11\/big-ideas-in-small-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ideas in Small Packages"},"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\/2013\/11\/11\/big-ideas-in-small-packages\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thumbs.dreamstime.com\/x\/3d-small-people-witch-brush-paint-15317713.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Big Art Can Come from Small Canvases!\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Art Can Come from Small Canvases!<\/figcaption><\/figure>Trying to flush out ideas can be frustrating. While the concept can pop into my head at any time, (at work, in bed, in the shower, in the car, etc.), I often find it difficult to develop that idea into a fully realized work. I sometimes write the idea down and then try to come up with a single sentence to describe the feelings and thoughts that I would like the painting to convey. Every piece of work that I complete means something important to me. Just painting objects that I see is usually not enough for me. I want the painting to carry emotional weight and deliver it to the viewer. The benefit of this thinking is that all of my works contain a part of my heart. The drawback of this thinking is that I only complete 4 to 6 paintings a year. Well I have completed 4 paintings to date, but would you believe I am trying to complete 3 more before the year ends? If the size of these paintings were large then I would concede that I had no chance to realize that goal, but all of these works are just 11&#8221;x14&#8221; and typically that size only takes me about 2 weeks to complete. The best part is I already have the ideas flushed out. Yep I think I&#8217;m on to something here; if I develop more small paintings then I end up with more works completed by years end. I would like to up my yearly target of paintings to 10-12 because eventually I hope to try to get some gallery representation. To get a shot at entering a gallery, I need a larger portfolio, but that is way down the road. Well I&#8217;m about to complete another painting so I will be back shortly with much more. Happy Autumn!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/art\/paintings\/pier\/all\" style=\"font: 10pt arial; text-decoration: underline;\">pier paintings<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/art\/photographs\/ocean\/all\" style=\"font: 10pt arial; text-decoration: underline;\">ocean photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to flush out ideas can be frustrating. While the concept can pop into my head at any time, (at work, in bed, in the shower, in the car, etc.), I often find it difficult to develop that idea into a fully realized work. I sometimes write the idea down and then try to come &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2013\/11\/11\/big-ideas-in-small-packages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Ideas in Small Packages<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}