{"id":770,"date":"2015-05-18T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2015-05-18T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:54:10","slug":"another-retrospective-me-as-an-artist-in-my-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/05\/18\/another-retrospective-me-as-an-artist-in-my-20s\/","title":{"rendered":"Another retrospective &#8211; me as an artist in my 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\" alt=\"0b26a13\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg 200w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about being a blogger is that I can continually talk about myself. Blah blah blah Greg&#8230; blah blah blah more Greg. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A little while back I inflicted upon you all the story of teenage Greg. <a href=\"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/finding-teenage-greg-over-30-years-later\/\">Here<\/a> it is if you feel that you cannot get enough of me. (That&#8217;s a hint &#8211; run away from this post while you still can). LOL<\/p>\n<p>Today is the story of me in my 20s. To be honest there is no where near as much art. My eyes were on a downward spiral &#8211; my left eye already blind (the Keratoconus). I was also working full time and studying part-time at night. So art took a back seat. Anyway, I still did the odd piece and it&#8217;s worth looking at these in seeing how I developed.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of my teens and the beginning of my twenties I started collecting old National Geographics. Mostly this was because I worked on a road heavy with second-hand bookshops and I loved the photos and exotic locales. I was actually inspired to make several sketches from these. Only one remains &#8211; a man with a pipe and a pot on his head. Around the same time I decided to paint a portrait of one of my favourite Hollywood stars of the time &#8211; Clint Eastwood. It&#8217;s not that good, but I learnt a great deal. I followed this up with a study of my mother and then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The great thing about being a blogger is that I can continually talk about myself. Blah blah blah Greg&#8230; blah blah blah more Greg. \ud83d\ude42 A little while back I inflicted upon you all the story of teenage Greg. Here it is if you feel that you cannot get enough of me. (That&#8217;s a hint &#8211; run away from this post while you still can). LOL Today is the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[11,58],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pencilpenbruch","tag-art","tag-painting","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/twentiesfeature.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}