{"id":1024,"date":"2012-07-10T05:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T05:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:24:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:24:32","slug":"adding-colour-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/adding-colour-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding colour to life&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Insightful-Discovery-with-art-1.png');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Insightful-Discovery-with-art-1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1023\" title=\"Insightful Discovery with art 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Insightful-Discovery-with-art-1-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Insightful-Discovery-with-art-1-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Insightful-Discovery-with-art-1-150x137.png 150w, https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Insightful-Discovery-with-art-1.png 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0It is interesting what happens when one &#8216;lets go&#8217; for a while and we\u00a0allow our imagination to soar. I am a keen, albeit rather spasmodic, &#8216;painter&#8217;. Well, I enjoy playing with colour and seeing what surfaces rather than a true artist. It is only in recent years that I have migrated to oil paints and I must say\u00a0I do have a lot of fun with the texture and way the material works &#8211; it is also much more forgiving than water colour.<\/p>\n<p>I was driving along the other day and went past the end of a lane where I had enjoyed a day in a studio, playing with colours. The works that you can see in the picture are not all mine, many are\u00a0by <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.artwithsoul.co.uk\/');\" title=\"Louis Parsons\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.artwithsoul.co.uk\/\">the artist, Louis Parsons<\/a>,\u00a0who was guiding us during the day. And what a delight it was too, to be away from the business of the day and make time to stretch our creativity a little &#8211;\u00a0 in my case in a new direction and a new insightful discovery too. I was well pleased with\u00a0the results and left feeling far more relaxed and\u00a0vibrant because the colours had lifted my soul and brought a new dimension to the day.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst this event was a while ago it was lovely to be reminded by that road junction and the trip made on that special day.<\/p>\n<p>It also got me thinking about a few things as\u00a0I motored on my way. Things such as this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are we taking enough &#8216;time out&#8217; to re-energise ourselves?<\/li>\n<li>When was the last time we enjoyed some truly creative time?<\/li>\n<li>How much more vibrancy does colour add to our lives &#8211; and are we adding enough colours into our days?<\/li>\n<li>When was the last time that you passed somewhere but were too busy to allow time to draw on\u00a0your memory bank. The memory bank which on that day I\u00a0had placed a large credit?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmmm &#8211; it sure got me thinking. It sure got me wanting to feel the excitement of creating something new. It sure got me realising that some more colour in life would bring a bigger smile!<\/p>\n<p>I hope this short reminder has got you thinking too.<\/p>\n<p>My best wishes,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Peter<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> It is interesting what happens when one &#8216;lets go&#8217; for a while and we allow our imagination to soar. I am a keen, albeit rather spasmodic, &#8216;painter&#8217;. Well, I enjoy playing with colour and seeing what surfaces rather than a true artist. It is only in recent years that I have migrated to oil paints and I must say I do have a lot of fun with the texture and way the material works &#8211; it is also much more forgiving than water colour.<\/p>\n<p>I was driving along the other day and went past the end of a lane where I had enjoyed a day in a studio, playing with colours. The works that you can <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/adding-colour-life\/\">Adding colour to life&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-reflection","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}