{"id":15813,"date":"2017-04-21T23:43:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T03:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=15813"},"modified":"2017-04-22T00:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T04:11:06","slug":"15813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15813","title":{"rendered":"Watercolorists at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the books I brought home today was this: Watercolorists at Work by Susan Meyer and Norman Kent, 1972. Norman Kent, when editor of <i>American Artist<\/i> had asked twenty-five artists to contribute to a book showing their process. His successor, Susan Meyer brought the book to publication after his death. What a book it is. Each artist, in alphabetical order, has several pages of photos and text showing a work start to finish. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-1.jpeg\" title=\"Watercolorists at Work\" width=\"500\" height=\"665\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-1.jpeg 2814w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-1-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-1-301x400.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-1-770x1024.jpeg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight as I was spending time with the book I turned a page and there was <a href=\"http:\/\/johnpikeart.com\/about-the-artist.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Pike<\/a>, known to me as the creator of the palette I use, developing a fine ocean scene. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-2.jpeg\" title=\"John Pike watercolor\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-2.jpeg 3956w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-2-150x103.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-2-580x400.jpeg 580w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/JPEG-image-0F4A2F77EDF5-2-1024x706.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the books I brought home today was this: Watercolorists at Work by Susan Meyer and Norman Kent, 1972. Norman Kent, when editor of American Artist had asked twenty-five artists to contribute to a book showing their process. 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