{"id":899,"date":"2015-07-16T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2015-07-16T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:09:17","slug":"mining-with-a-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/mining-with-a-needle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining with a Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I took a drawing course at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrystudioworkshops.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Country Studio Workshops<\/a> several years ago the instructor, <a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.edu\/faculty-directory\/gerald-auten\" target=\"_blank\">Gerald Auten,<\/a> made a comment as he was pacing the room that has stayed with me since.\u00a0 I can\u2019t quote him exactly, but the overall gist of what he said was to work deeper and deeper into a drawing, being careful not to call it &#8220;finished&#8221; too quickly. He was encouraging us to keep digging in order to see what discoveries would arise. It&#8217;s a point that has remained in the back of my mind, and it&#8217;s been with me all this week in my exploration of the ways that texture and color can work together to influence each other.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_908\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DigDeeper-copy.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"wp-image-908 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DigDeeper-copy.jpg?resize=576%2C432\" alt=\"DigDeeper copy\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DigDeeper-copy.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DigDeeper-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>In Process\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a92015 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s wonderful how sometimes the simplest of remarks can make such a huge difference. I would love to hear about any shared insights that have had a strong impact on your practice. Or, to turn it around, is there something that you have discovered in your work which you&#8217;d be willing to pass on to the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took a drawing course at North Country Studio Workshops several years ago the instructor, Gerald Auten, made a comment as he was pacing the room that has stayed with me since.\u00a0 I can\u2019t quote him exactly, but the overall gist of what he said was to work deeper and deeper into a drawing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[68,67],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-process","tag-digging-deeper","tag-gerald-auten"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kO5z-ev","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}