{"id":343,"date":"2010-06-15T20:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takeyceart.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-06-15T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:08:27","slug":"curious-drake-congress-park-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/2010\/06\/15\/curious-drake-congress-park-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Drake \u2013 Congress Park Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takeyceart.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/curious-drake-%E2%80%A6ress-park-duck\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Curious Drake by Takeyce Walter\" src=\"http:\/\/takeyceart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/curisou_drake_by_takeyce_Walter.jpg\" alt=\"\" max width=\"500 px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em>Curious Drake<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n5\u00d77\u2033 pastel on panel, \u00a9 2010 Takeyce Walter<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">SOLD<\/span><\/strong> to a collector in Bay Shore, NY.<\/p>\n<p>This is another painting I started last week during the SAF Paint Out, but had to finish at home because of the rain. It\u2019s a study of one of the many little ducks that live by the pond in Congress Park. This one in particular showed more interest in what I was doing than the others. So I snapped a couple pictures of him for this piece. He\u2019s the second duck I\u2019ve ever painted. The first was in the other SAF painting \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/takeyceart.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/saratoga-arts-fest-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Winding Stream<\/strong><\/a>. Did you spot him?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blog Anniversary!<\/strong><br \/>\nJune 19th is my blog\u2019s 4 year anniversary! In celebration, I\u2019m doing a drawing for a free painting. All you have to do to qualify is to leave a comment on <em>any<\/em> painting on my blog that strikes you to do so between today and Saturday, 6\/19 (praise or nays! I can take a little constructive criticism once a year! hehe!). I\u2019ll pick a name from a hat on Sunday morning and announce the winner then. Good Luck!<br \/>\nUntil next time\u2026<br \/>\nTakeyce<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/takeyceart.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Visit A Fine Art Blog.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Takeyce Walter Studio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Takeyce-Walter-Studio\/186413678183\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Become a Fan on Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious Drake 5\u00d77\u2033 pastel on panel, \u00a9 2010 Takeyce Walter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sold","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takeyceart.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}