{"id":1700,"date":"2011-02-10T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:44:39","slug":"valerie-chua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/02\/10\/valerie-chua\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Chua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3424.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Valerie Chua\" alt=\"Valerie Chua\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3423.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Valerie Chua\" alt=\"Valerie Chua\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3419.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Valerie Chua\" alt=\"Valerie Chua\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/3420.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Valerie Chua\" alt=\"Valerie Chua\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you had told me that <a href=\"http:\/\/valeriechua.carbonmade.com\">Valerie Chua<\/a> was a self-taught artist, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed you. But by golly she is, and it&#8217;s amazing what she can do &#8212; she specializes in traditional mediums such as watercolor, gouache and acrylic. <\/p>\n<p>From her About page:<br \/>\n<em>A lot of my works are composed of female faces and figures displaying an equivocal sense of honesty and deceptiveness. I play with the idea of women revealing herself through nature. Recently I&#8217;ve been attracted to Japan&#8217;s Mori\/Forest Girl subculture, which gives prime to innocence and simplicity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s based in Manila, Philippines and she details her working process on her <a href=\"http:\/\/quietgirl.net\/\">blog<\/a>. It&#8217;s a lovely read, especially her experiments with watercolor. You can purchase some postcards and also prints over at her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/quietgirlshop\">Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~ <em>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/camilledagal.blogspot.com\">Camz<\/a> for the link!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Valerie Chua\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/02\/10\/valerie-chua\/\" aria-label=\"More on Valerie Chua\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31044,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/31044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}