{"id":1677,"date":"2022-04-30T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2022-04-30T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T18:39:04","slug":"elaines-koi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Elaine&#8217;s Koi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ElainesKoi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ElainesKoi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ElainesKoi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Elaine&#8217;s Koi<br>oil on canvas<br>30&#215;30 inches<br>2022<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before leaving for Hawaii I was able to ship this commission to a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">new client in Maryland.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She&#8217;s a big fan of my koi paintings and has a gorgeous koi pond of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">her own.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This particular piece is a variation of a much larger one I had made<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in 1988 titled, &#8220;Koi School 11,&#8221; 54 inches square.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was her favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were two enormous koi ponds at both ends of our hotel in Lanai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took a bunch of photos at different times throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The staff kindly provided fish food that I used to lure them into a <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">roiling water frenzy.   (Another favorite motif of mine.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still digesting all the images before I leap back into painting them again.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before leaving for Hawaii I was able to ship this commission to a new client in Maryland. She&#8217;s a big fan of my koi paintings and has a gorgeous koi pond of her own. This particular piece is a variation of a much larger one I had made in 1988 titled, &#8220;Koi School 11,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elaine&#8217;s Koi<\/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":[15,16,19,13,25,11,9,20,14,8],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contemporary-art","tag-fineart","tag-koi","tag-koi-paintings","tag-koiart","tag-lindaaholt","tag-lindaholt","tag-lindaholtstudio","tag-oil-paintings","tag-koi-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","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=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}