{"id":1084,"date":"2018-06-06T12:44:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2018-06-06T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:45:17","slug":"60-97-percent-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"60-97 Percent Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some recent abstract collages that include references, one way or another to real world things.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I made this collage on top of an old drawing of glasses that I found in my (voluminous) unfinished pile.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I worked in a number of scraps from my (also voluminous) binder of doodles and fragments, This one really puts the &#8220;multi&#8221; in multimedia, as it includes pen, colored pencil, and watercolor as well as acrylic paint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1087\" src=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Glasses-of-Water-full-1024x824.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Glasses-of-Water-full-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Glasses-of-Water-full-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Glasses-of-Water-full-768x618.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this next one, I used a painting from 8 or 9 years ago, where I was trying to convey how the shaded parts of magnolia blooms look almost transparent. As my friend Tish said, this work is &#8220;more formal&#8221; than a lot of pieces, because of the squares (Tish is not a big fan of squares, but on principle she doesn&#8217;t say negative things about people&#8217;s artwork.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1089\" src=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Magnolia-smaller-1024x848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Magnolia-smaller-1024x848.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Magnolia-smaller-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Magnolia-smaller-768x636.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Magnolia-smaller.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I wanted to make a sea monster breaching from what evolved to be a yellow ocean into a pink sky.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1090\" src=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sea-Monster-smaller-1024x803.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sea-Monster-smaller-1024x803.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sea-Monster-smaller-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sea-Monster-smaller-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sea-Monster-smaller.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A female figure, undaunted:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A-Female-Figure-812x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"384\" class=\"wp-image-1085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A-Female-Figure-812x1024.jpg 812w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A-Female-Figure-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A-Female-Figure-768x969.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This was supposed to be a rain shower, but it didn&#8217;t work that way. Tish helped me figure out that it was a flag. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_7142-1024x829.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"415\" class=\"wp-image-1088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_7142-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_7142-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_7142-768x622.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Weirdly enough, I got inspired to play with a composition from my optometrist&#8217;s Star Trek calendar, where a pilot looks out from a cockpit onto a long line-up of harbored starships.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Final-Frontier-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"512\" class=\"wp-image-1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Final-Frontier-838x1024.jpg 838w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Final-Frontier-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Final-Frontier-768x938.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some recent abstract collages that include references, one way or another to real world things. I made this collage on top of an old drawing of glasses that I found in my (voluminous) unfinished pile.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I worked in a number of scraps from my (also voluminous) binder of doodles and fragments, This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=1084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">60-97 Percent Abstract<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}