{"id":349,"date":"2023-04-27T21:27:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:28:33","slug":"mother-natures-color-palette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/mother-natures-color-palette\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Nature&#8217;s Color Palette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often like to use bright and bold colors in my paintings, and just in the past 24 hours I came across these azalea bushes in two different locations that really struck me with the intensity of their color.  You can shop for all of the Winsor &amp; Newton or Liquitex paint colors you want, but sometimes you just can&#8217;t compete with Mother Nature, who really knocks it out of the park at times.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3494\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/colorful-azalea-bushes-in-spring.jpg\" alt=\"An intensely colored azalea bush seen in Bloomfield, NJ.\" width=\"900\" height=\"776\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/colorful-azalea-bushes-in-spring.jpg 900w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/colorful-azalea-bushes-in-spring-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/colorful-azalea-bushes-in-spring-768x662.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An intensely colored azalea bush seen in Bloomfield, NJ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often like to use bright and bold colors in my paintings, and just in the past 24 hours I came across these azalea bushes in two different locations that really struck me with the intensity of their color. You can shop for all of the Winsor &amp; Newton or Liquitex paint colors you want, &#8230; <a title=\"Mother Nature&#8217;s Color Palette\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/mother-natures-color-palette\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mother Nature&#8217;s Color Palette\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36],"tags":[127,214,300,515],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-photography","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-azalea","tag-color","tag-flowers","tag-mother-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}