{"id":4144,"date":"2020-06-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2020-06-19T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:54:10","slug":"painting-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/painting-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you taken up painting during lockdown? Alida started to paint recently, and she&#8217;s already had an order! Read her story below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>___________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took up painting to release some of the stress the lockdown was causing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d never painted before. But, I started to paint as soon as the acrylics and canvases I&#8217;d ordered arrived, and I loved it! Painting can be very challenging and distracting at the same time. Right now, I could be painting all day non-stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abstract lion below is the second piece I painted, which took me 14 hours to finish. I decided to paint a lion because a friend, who loves lions, asked me to paint one for him after seeing my first piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve already started on my third painting, a portray of my cat. 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