{"id":115,"date":"2022-04-09T19:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2022-04-09T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T18:49:22","slug":"i-love-lichen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/04\/09\/i-love-lichen\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Lichen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I mean, look at it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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yellow lichen on a tree branch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I love the shapes, I love the colours. When I’m out for a walk, in the forest or in town, I’m always looking out for it and maybe taking a quick picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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yellow and grey lichen on a brick wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So when I sat down to paint the other day, and flipped through the photos on my phone for inspiration, I quickly decided to paint some lichen-y shapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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abstract watercolour painting of yellow, green and grey lichen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was fun as it let me do my favourite parts of wet-on-wet, letting the colours mingle and dry however they would. The limited palette brought it together a bit more than when I just use all the colours (though it’s hard not to! I love all the colours). And I enjoyed painting the wibbly shapes and ferny bits of the lichen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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close-up of lichen watercolour art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today I went on a woodland walk with my eldest and took a few more lichen pictures. So I’m sure more lichen art won’t be far behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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another close-up of lichen watercolour art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mean, look at it I love the shapes, I love the colours. When I’m out for a walk, in the forest or in town, I’m always looking out for it and maybe taking a quick picture. So when I sat down to paint the other day, and flipped through the photos on my phone… Continue reading I Love Lichen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-watercolour","tag-lichen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}