{"id":569,"date":"2023-06-13T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:17:38","slug":"art-on-the-porch-a-walking-art-tour-in-ocean-grove-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/art-on-the-porch-a-walking-art-tour-in-ocean-grove-nj\/","title":{"rendered":"Art On The Porch, a walking art tour in Ocean Grove, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was down in Ocean Grove last weekend, to enjoy a day at the beach, but there was also a walking art tour of local artists taking place called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artontheporch.org\/\" title=\"Art On The Porch\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Art On The Porch<\/a>.&#8221; I love the idea: over 50 artists set up their art work on the front porches of their homes, and one gets a map with all of the locations in order to walk around to see the artists and their work.<\/p>\n<p>This particular photo above (and below) was from a front porch featuring the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/pazinko.myportfolio.com\/work\" title=\"Nick Pazinko artwork and website\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Pazinko<\/a>. There were a number of beach-inspired paintings in acrylics and oils on canvas with reclaimed beach furniture frames. But I also liked the dog painting titled &#8220;Chip&#8221; below left, and as I was looking at it, I noticed the subject himself right around the corner of the porch &#8211; it almost looks like he&#8217;s posing for the painting! <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3486\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/dog-painting-with-dog-subject.jpg\" alt=\"dog painting with dog subject seated nearby\" width=\"950\" height=\"650\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/dog-painting-with-dog-subject.jpg 950w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/dog-painting-with-dog-subject-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/dog-painting-with-dog-subject-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dog painting titled &#8220;Chip,&#8221; by Nick Pazinko &#8211; and Chip himself nearby!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was down in Ocean Grove last weekend, to enjoy a day at the beach, but there was also a walking art tour of local artists taking place called &#8220;Art On The Porch.&#8221; I love the idea: over 50 artists set up their art work on the front porches of their homes, and one gets &#8230; <a title=\"Art On The Porch, a walking art tour in Ocean Grove, NJ\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/art-on-the-porch-a-walking-art-tour-in-ocean-grove-nj\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Art On The Porch, a walking art tour in Ocean Grove, NJ\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40],"tags":[111,256,544,558],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-exhibitions","category-road-trips","tag-art-on-the-porch","tag-dogs","tag-nick-pazinko","tag-ocean-grove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}