{"id":2890,"date":"2017-02-03T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2017-02-03T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:27:55","slug":"finished-my-latest-poppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/finished-my-latest-poppy\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished my latest poppy :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I started this large poppy over a year ago….I drew and painted the first layer, added the background and then lost interest!! \u00a0A couple of weeks ago I fancied having a go with it again and I’ve loved playing with nice warm colours in the middle of winter!<\/p>\n

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Moral of this story….if your creative juices aren’t flowing, put your piece aside and wait until they are ha ha.<\/p>\n

Would love to know what you think….<\/p>\n

Dawn xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I started this large poppy over a year ago….I drew and painted the first layer, added the background and then lost interest!! \u00a0A couple of weeks ago I fancied having a go with it again and I’ve loved playing with nice warm colours in the middle of winter! Moral of this story….if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[65,194,195,139,62,366,363,365,364],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/thumb_IMG_2174_1024.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71bqO-KC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2751,"url":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/new-spring-workshop\/","url_meta":{"origin":2890,"position":0},"title":"New Spring Workshop :-)","date":"6th January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Morning everyone After a wonderful Christmas break, it's so good to be back teaching classes and doing what I love! 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