{"id":507,"date":"2017-01-24T16:40:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/?p=507"},"modified":"2017-01-24T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:40:39","slug":"up-the-coulee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/recent-work\/up-the-coulee\/","title":{"rendered":"Up The Coulee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Up-The-Coulee-w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Up-The-Coulee-w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Up-The-Coulee-w.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Up-The-Coulee-w-200x139.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sometimes inspiration springs from more than one source.<\/p>\n<p>Such was the case with this painting titled, Up The Coulee.<\/p>\n<p>I worked on this\u00a0during a recent Watercolor Workshop taught by landscape artist, Alison Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>Alison\u2019s work inspired me to try some big sky clouds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Saskatchewan-Rock-Outcrop-Jamie-Angus-w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-513\" src=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Saskatchewan-Rock-Outcrop-Jamie-Angus-w-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I stumbled across the inspiration for the sky (with the bonus of a really colorful rock outcropping) in a photo shared by Jamie Angus in the Saskatchewan Scenery group on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Slade-Ranch-w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-515\" src=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Slade-Ranch-w-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I was also drawn to the beauty of the rolling hills and fall foliage of the Slade Ranch in southwestern Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>The ranch is featured in this image posted by my friends, Brenda Baker and Art Slade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Up-The-Coulee-Composition-Sketch_edited-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-517\" src=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Up-The-Coulee-Composition-Sketch_edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Up-The-Coulee-Composition-Sketch_edited-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Up-The-Coulee-Composition-Sketch_edited-1-200x131.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I played around with combinations that would partner the two inspirations in a combined sketch.\u00a0See the black and white rough shown on the right.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed to work. And so I dove right in with paintbrush and color!<\/p>\n<p>You still have a few days to see Up The Coulee\u00a0in real life along with a couple of my ink and watercolor abstracts created in a class with Anne McElroy.<\/p>\n<p>All three pieces \u2013 along with the work of other workshop participants \u2013 are on display in The Workshop Show at <a href=\"http:\/\/huesart.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Hues Art Supply<\/a> (1818 Lorne Avenue in Saskatoon) until the end of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes inspiration springs from more than one source. Such was the case with this painting titled, Up The Coulee. I worked on this\u00a0during a recent Watercolor Workshop taught by landscape artist, Alison Montgomery. Alison\u2019s work inspired me to try some big sky clouds. I stumbled across the inspiration for the sky (with the bonus of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,4,5],"tags":[36,26,51,14,62,11,9,8,19,12,13],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-process","category-recent-work","category-special-events","tag-art-show-sale","tag-composition","tag-hues-art-supply","tag-ink-watercolor","tag-landscape","tag-pat-katz","tag-patricia-katz","tag-pauseworks-studio","tag-process","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}