{"id":56,"date":"2005-08-12T10:41:35","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2017-07-01T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T21:07:08","slug":"meet-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/meet-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-938 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/20170502_130531-1-1-1-e1498943149553-150x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" \/>&#8220;As a photo realism artist working vibrant transparent layers into my art paintings , it can take over a hundred hours to finish each piece of artwork. My passion is realism and I followed it through the mediums of pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor and oils. Reading the eyes of animals, for years, gave way to telling stories of travels-through the portraiture of beautiful and historical places visited. I hope my art is a reminder of your own story there, or, encourages you to go make one&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6bj<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Success follows your passion, so brave your life a smile&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.bj.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are different opinions, as to where an artist&#8217;s desire is born. Some say, &#8220;a schooled regimen&#8221;, and others prefer&#8230;&#8217;a gift from God&#8217;, &#8216;a natural talent&#8217;, or, &#8216;an over-active right side&#8217;. Personally, I believe that everyone is born with a specific passion to help them with a life that smiles. I encourage &#8216;I hate my life-ers&#8217; to believe in their&#8217;s. Passion has no respect for time. Learning, practice, failures and success all seem to take simple moments. My passion is art. Perhaps, because the essence of art is sharing. I invite you to come share in mine and show me your own passion!&#8221;&#8230;bj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As a photo realism artist working vibrant transparent layers into my art paintings , it can take over a hundred hours to finish each piece of artwork. My passion is realism and I followed it through the mediums of pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor and oils. Reading the eyes of animals, for years, gave way to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/meet-the-artist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}