{"id":4018,"date":"2020-01-28T02:24:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2020-01-28T02:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:47:15","slug":"sandra-derrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/archives\/4018","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Derrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live and paint in Pearland, TX with my dog Bella.&nbsp; I find art a challenge, which I will never tire of. For me, painting means that you are forever a student where the only constant is learning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is no subject matter that I like painting more than another. I think of still life, portraiture, or landscape fair game. Also, I find inspiration everywhere from the morning sunrise lighting up the tree tops to a child sleeping. Finding Inspiration is endless.<\/p>\n<p>I started painting with oils, which I am comfortable with, but do stray into other mediums as well. I do not think that I have found a pencil, charcoal stick, or paint brush that I have not liked. The best thing about painting is that you can lose yourself in it. For me, it becomes just the canvas, brush, you and Pandora.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if Bob Ross ever said, \u201cYou need the dark in order to show the light.\u201d But I find it fitting.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderWebsite: <a href=\"https:\/\/sjderrick.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/sjderrick.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live and paint in Pearland, TX with my dog Bella.&nbsp; I find art a challenge, which I will never tire of. For me, painting means that you are forever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,62,61,59],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-artists","tag-artwork","tag-charcoal-drawing","tag-oil-painting","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pearlandartleague.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}