{"id":1122,"date":"2017-01-12T21:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T02:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2017-01-12T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T02:19:27","slug":"go-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/go-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Figure!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first month or so of 2017 we will be looking at bodies, thinking about bodies and gesture and movement. We’ll think about proportion and relationships, and cool stuff like your foot is the same length as the distance between your elbow and wrist, and your elbow is even with your bellybutton. \ud83d\ude42
\nLast week we learned a lot about proportion, and then made paintings of a person walking.<\/p>\n

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For the first month or so of 2017 we will be looking at bodies, thinking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[17,18,73,23,19,24],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-lessons","category-student-work","tag-art-classes","tag-art-for-kids","tag-figure-drawing","tag-kids-art","tag-pastel-painting","tag-student-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1lyla-bod.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nyYC-i6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1167,"url":"https:\/\/heidimayo.com\/topblog\/schedule-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1122,"position":0},"title":"Schedule Update","author":"heidimayo","date":"January 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"If you are my friend on Facebook, I can tag you when I upload pix of kids' work. 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