{"id":2105,"date":"2012-06-15T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2012-06-15T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:43:08","slug":"blocks-to-art-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/blocks-to-art-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that get in the way of art making&#8230;.part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Distractions (they will always be there, too many to mention&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>2. Fear of failure (or fear of not being <em>perfect<\/em>&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>3. Lack of time (if need be, do art in 10 minute chunks &#8211; better than not at all&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>4. Lack of space (use a broom cupboard or the back of an envelope if necessary&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>5. Comparison (don&#8217;t go there, its not worth it&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>and finally&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>6. Cats (honestly, how is a girl supposed to work&#8230;?!)<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2111 aligncenter\" title=\"cat sitting 2\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2115 aligncenter\" title=\"cat sitting\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2114 aligncenter\" title=\"cat sitting 5\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2113 aligncenter\" title=\"cat sitting 4\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2112 aligncenter\" title=\"cat sitting 3\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cat-sitting-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I offer the following (c\/o Alison Spokes&#8217; FB photos) to help us over our blockages to art making&#8230; Happy weekend everyone<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2110 aligncenter\" title=\"batman\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/batman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/batman.jpg 476w, https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/batman-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Distractions (they will always be there, too many to mention&#8230;) 2. Fear of failure (or fear of not being perfect&#8230;.) 3. Lack of time (if need be, do art in 10 minute chunks &#8211; better than not at all&#8230;) 4. Lack of space (use a broom cupboard or the back of an envelope if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-living","category-developing-as-an-artist","category-mosaic-loving","category-concetta-perot-mosaics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}