{"id":1647,"date":"2021-12-22T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2021-12-22T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:44:02","slug":"last-koi-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Last koi of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4095-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4095-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4095-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_4095.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>5 Koi 21  30&#215;30 inches  oil on canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I began work on a koi commission for a lovely new client in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Maryland.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has an enormous koi pond &#8211;  about an acre! &#8211; with 6 large koi in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And snapping turtles, bass and &#8230;&#8230;perhaps other unknown critters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway,  the painting I started (above) was not the one she had envisioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So,  I&#8217;ll begin another in January.    I told her this is what I would do,  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and happily so,  because I need to make the painting she wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s plenty of creative flexibilty for me to exercise in the new version<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">because she&#8217;s a huge fan of my work.   (Art major in college turned lawyer.)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is so gratifying to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the time I&#8217;m working in my own little isolated world of my studio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">unaware of anyone who might be looking at my website <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to see what I&#8217;m doing.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I began work on a koi commission for a lovely new client in Maryland. She has an enormous koi pond &#8211; about an acre! &#8211; with 6 large koi in it. And snapping turtles, bass and &#8230;&#8230;perhaps other unknown critters. Anyway, the painting I started (above) was not the one she had envisioned. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last koi of the year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,11,9],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-koi-paintings","tag-lindaaholt","tag-lindaholt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}