{"id":496,"date":"2015-07-31T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T22:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2015-09-02T23:04:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T23:04:18","slug":"4-koi-fish-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;4 koi&#8221;  painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/4-Koi-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-505 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/4-Koi-15-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/4-Koi-15-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/4-Koi-15-1024x748.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4 Koi,\u00a0\u00a0 30&#215;40 inches,\u00a0 oil on canvas<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1024px-La_danse_I_by_Matisse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-504\" src=\"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1024px-La_danse_I_by_Matisse-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"1024px-La_danse_(I)_by_Matisse\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1024px-La_danse_I_by_Matisse-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1024px-La_danse_I_by_Matisse.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had such a good time painting this image.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can you tell?<\/p>\n<p>Someone once told me that my work was all about the diagonals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bright color too.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s a more obvious quality. \u00a0 \u00a0 The diagonals are instinctive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I never even thought about them until my friend Jim Mingo pointed them out.\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly,\u00a0 he died.\u00a0 He last name wasn&#8217;t really Mingo.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That was the name of his gallery.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But I often used it to hear his thunderous\u00a0 laugh.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It never failed.<\/p>\n<p>On occasion,\u00a0 now, \u00a0 I do think about those diagonals &#8230;\u00a0 along with all the other compositional elements :\u00a0 active versus passive passages,\u00a0 my strokes,\u00a0 and more. \u00a0 I&#8217;m really not conscious of the dance my diagonal placement of the koi often creates as I paint these\u00a0 japanese carp. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This 4 Koi painting reminds me of Matisse&#8217;s dance figures above.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dance away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Koi,\u00a0\u00a0 30&#215;40 inches,\u00a0 oil on canvas I had such a good time painting this image.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can you tell? Someone once told me that my work was all about the diagonals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bright color too.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s a more obvious quality. \u00a0 \u00a0 The diagonals are instinctive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I never even thought about them until my friend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=496\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;4 koi&#8221;  painting<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}