{"id":500,"date":"2009-07-22T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/?p=500"},"modified":"2009-07-22T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:41:12","slug":"the-drum-stick-portrait-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/the-drum-stick-portrait-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drum Stick Portrait Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing paintings of various drum sticks and beaters for the last six months or so. It&#8217;s a bit unusual, seeing as I&#8217;m not actually <em>playing<\/em> percussion instruments all that much right now. OK, I&#8217;m <em>practicing<\/em> but I&#8217;m not performing a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here is the first batch of stick portraits. I&#8217;m working on a much larger one, but I&#8217;m gonna need some more paint to finish it. I go through a lot of paint!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-500 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/the-drum-stick-portrait-series\/mailloche\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/wp-content\/uploads\/mailloche-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-502\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-502'>\n\t\t\t\tAcrylic on canvas, 2009  20&#8243; x 30&#8243; or so\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/the-drum-stick-portrait-series\/baguette\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/wp-content\/uploads\/baguette-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-507\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-507'>\n\t\t\t\tAcrylic on canvas, 2009 12&#8243; x 16&#8243; or so\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/the-drum-stick-portrait-series\/maxsound\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxsound-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-510\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-510'>\n\t\t\t\tAcrylic on panel, 2009 16&#8243; x 20&#8243;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/the-drum-stick-portrait-series\/burtongrip\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/wp-content\/uploads\/burtongrip-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-513\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-513'>\n\t\t\t\tAcrylic on paper, 2009 30&#8243; x 12&#8243; or so\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing paintings of various drum sticks and beaters for the last six months or so. It&#8217;s a bit unusual, seeing as I&#8217;m not actually playing percussion instruments all that much right now. OK, I&#8217;m practicing but I&#8217;m not performing a lot. Anyway, here is the first batch of stick portraits. I&#8217;m working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Drum Stick Portrait Series - Rubright.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rubright.com\/basement\/the-drum-stick-portrait-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Drum Stick Portrait Series - Rubright.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been doing paintings of various drum sticks and beaters for the last six months or so. 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