{"id":1,"date":"2014-01-28T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sperlinginteractive.com\/clients\/lindaholt\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-07-10T00:46:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T00:46:58","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"nourishing your art spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019re all natural artists.<\/em><\/span> That is, until some sort of authority, most likely an adult, tells\u00a0us that we can\u2019t draw, or we can\u2019t paint — because we have no talent. That\u2019s when we stop trusting our intuition and become influenced by outside sources. I think this drives many a natural artist underground. So far underground, that whatever creative spark was there becomes extinguished forever.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to share an amusing story about me<\/em><\/span>. Freshman year in college,\u00a0\u00a0 I entered a beginning drawing class with great enthusiasm. After all, I was an art major. (It\u2019s important to mention that this course was taught by my advisor because it made what happened all the more compelling.) We students had gone outside to draw for the majority of our 3 hour class. Near the end of the period,\u00a0 we returned to mount all of our work on the wall for a critique. My advisor,\u00a0 the professor, talked about everyone else’s work but mine. I was crestfallen. And too shy at that point to say anything about it.\u00a0 So, the next time we went outside to draw, I decided to go to the cafeteria for lunch instead… Why bother?<\/p>\n

Now comes the amusing part<\/span><\/em>. I was uncomfortable with the drawing materials at first. It took awhile for me to regain my motivation, my passion and to develop facility with line. I then took advanced drawing,\u00a0 followed by an independent study in drawing which I adored. After graduation,\u00a0 while in graduate school, that same professor invited me back to his class as a guest speaker. How about that?\u00a0\u00a0 Finally he noticed me!<\/p>\n

Take your natural talent and feed it.\u00a0 Wonderful things can happen.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re all natural artists. That is, until some sort of authority, most likely an adult, tells\u00a0us that we can\u2019t draw, or we can\u2019t paint — because we have no talent. That\u2019s when we stop trusting our intuition and become influenced by outside sources. I think this drives many a natural artist underground. So far underground, … Continue reading nourishing your art spirit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}