{"id":1107,"date":"2026-07-25T11:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:53:40","slug":"acrylics-vs-watercolours-my-artistic-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Acrylics vs Watercolours: My Artistic Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"1307\" data-attachment-id=\"1099\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/?attachment_id=1099\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booleyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7767-scaled.jpeg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 13 mini&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1780310445&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7767\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booleyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7767-scaled.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booleyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7767-scaled.jpeg?resize=980%2C1307&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1099\" style=\"width:546px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booleyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7767-scaled.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booleyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7767-scaled.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booleyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7767-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booleyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7767-scaled.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booleyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7767-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arts week again &#8211; 7th-16th August 2026 &#8211; I will be showing some new work in acrylics and watercolour at The Concert Hall, Thomastown, Kilkenny. Themes are &#8211; Coumshingaun and Lough Derg on the Shannon, also some coastal and &#8216;lines of the land&#8217; landscapes. Come along and say hello, I will have some unframed originals in my &#8216;haggle box&#8217; and some new cards also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Particularly, I would like your feedback &#8211; especially on which medium I should focus on for the coming year.\u00a0 Acrylic and watercolour share some characteristics but are in reality quite different.\u00a0I have been painting seriously, for ten years, and hope to go on for many more &#8211; which direction though, there are so many options and so many things to try out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arts week again &#8211; 7th-16th August 2026 &#8211; I will be showing some new work in acrylics and watercolour at The Concert Hall, Thomastown, Kilkenny. Themes are &#8211; Coumshingaun and Lough Derg on the Shannon, also some coastal and &#8216;lines of the land&#8217; landscapes. Come along and say hello, I will have some unframed originals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}