{"id":5850,"date":"2013-06-05T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:22:23","slug":"andrea-shear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/andrea-shear\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Andrea Shear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My husband and I recently took up watercolor as a hobby. Jason has been creating these imaginative and celestial pieces by layering pigment on his ink drawings. I, on the other hand, am still trying to figure out how to paint with watercolors. However,\u00a0Andrea Shear<\/a> is quite talented with watercolor. She has a real eye for layering color creating depth in shadows and highlights.\"blood-andreashear\"<\/a> \"buffaloontheline-andreashear\"<\/a> \"theseer-andreashear\"<\/a> \"twins-andreashear\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My husband and I recently took up watercolor as a hobby. Jason has been creating these imaginative and celestial pieces by layering pigment on his ink drawings. I, on the other hand, am still trying to figure out how to paint with watercolors. However,\u00a0Andrea Shear is quite talented with watercolor. She has a real eye […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[1045,37,125,1868,505],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-andrea-shear","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-painting","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1wm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2996,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/tara-marynowsky\/","url_meta":{"origin":5850,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Tara Marynowsky","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tara Marynowsky paints life into her characters through an attentive detail to colors and shapes, yet their simple, fuzzy expressions are quite haunting. 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