{"id":1661,"date":"2012-06-30T02:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T02:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2012-06-30T02:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T02:54:51","slug":"ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa&#039;s Travel photo challenge:  Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ailsa from<a href=\"http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/06\/29\/travel-theme-art\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/06\/29\/travel-theme-art\/<\/a> proposed this week&#8217;s theme.\u00a0 Thanks Ailsa!<\/p>\n<p>This is Millie.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been tutoring her once a week for a few years and now she has travelled to Sydney to take part in a special program to learn to read.<\/p>\n<p>Millie and I have something in common:\u00a0 our Dads both like to draw and paint.\u00a0 This week, instead of showing you my father&#8217;s art, I want to draw attention to Stewart McDonald&#8217;s art.<\/p>\n<p>He draws like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1664\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/millie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1664 \" title=\"Millie\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/millie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/millie.png 391w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/millie-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stewart McDonald, &#8220;Millie&#8221;, graphite on Arches paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And he paints like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1674\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/stewartmcdonalduntitledf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1674 \" title=\"StewartMcDonaldUntitledF\" src=\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/stewartmcdonalduntitledf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/stewartmcdonalduntitledf.png 590w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/stewartmcdonalduntitledf-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stewart McDonald, &#8220;UntitledF&#8221;, ink on Fabriano paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can see more, and perhaps even buy originals or prints of his works, here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/people\/stewartmcd\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/people\/stewartmcd<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/images\/clear.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Millie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/images\/clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Millie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/images\/clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redbubble.com\/images\/clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ailsa from http:\/\/wheresmybackpack.com\/2012\/06\/29\/travel-theme-art\/ proposed this week&#8217;s theme.\u00a0 Thanks Ailsa! This is Millie.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been tutoring her once a week for a few years and now she has travelled to Sydney to take part in a special program to learn to read. Millie and I have something in common:\u00a0 our Dads both like to draw and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ailsa&#039;s Travel photo challenge:  Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[115,116,26,117,10,118],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-not-wwii","category-uncategorized","tag-stewart-gordon-mcdonald","tag-arches-paper","tag-art","tag-fabriano-paper","tag-postaweek2012","tag-stewart-mcdonald"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}