{"id":1288,"date":"2018-08-18T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/?page_id=1288"},"modified":"2019-01-02T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:59:34","slug":"2017-contrail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/paintings\/2017-contrail\/","title":{"rendered":"(2017) Contrail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/contrail-e1535165779873.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1294\" src=\"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/contrail-805x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"580\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">March 2017. Acrylic on 11&#8243;x14&#8243; stretched canvas.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first painting I&#8217;d made in many years.<\/p>\n<p>Although I was very excited my husband had the opportunity to work for SpaceX supporting rocket launches from Vandenberg, I was not handling the reality of the move very well. I&#8217;d lived my entire life in San Diego, never having lived further north than Escondido. I loved our little house: a ten-years-young baby of a building nestled in the shadow of a great ash tree, tucked away at the end of a long private driveway at the edge of the historic district. I loved how convenient the drive was to friends and family. I thought it would be our &#8220;forever home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though that frontier called, it was very difficult for me to leave.<\/p>\n<p>We were fortunate enough to make new friends soon after we relocated, but living in Santa Maria felt very isolating. I wound up watching a lot of Bob Ross on Netflix, which inspired me to start painting, again. This particular painting taught me that you can&#8217;t treat acrylics the same way you treat oils, unless you have a heckuva lot of acrylic retarder, and even then, it&#8217;s not really the same.<\/p>\n<p>I was asked by SpaceX&#8217;s lead rocket scientist at Vandy if this is a rendering of a particular place, because it seemed familiar to him. I was painting it mostly from Bob Ross reference and imagination, but it is very reminiscent of some areas just outside the Air Force Base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2017. Acrylic on 11&#8243;x14&#8243; stretched canvas. This is the first painting I&#8217;d made in many years. Although I was very excited my husband had the opportunity to work for SpaceX supporting rocket launches from Vandenberg, I was not handling the reality of the move very well. I&#8217;d lived my entire life in San Diego, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":72,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288\/revisions\/1344"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faintidea.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}