{"id":688,"date":"2011-10-13T18:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2011-10-13T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:11:38","slug":"big-thunder-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/big-thunder-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Thunder Mountain??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have now done 9 of the 12 paintings in the new series introduced in a <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=664\">previous blog post<\/a>.  I am painting each one to about 60-80% complete, then will finish them at once so-as to ensure continuity and progression of colors, and values, etc.  The series is 12 paintings (maybe a few more before I am done) of an event in 2006 which took about 15 minutes.  Each canvas is 24&#215;18 vertical orientation.<\/p>\n<p>I previously referenced <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans\" target=\"_blank\">Warhol&#8217;s Campbell Soup Cans exhibit of 1962<\/a> when he painted 32 &#8216;paintings&#8217; of all the Campbell Soup Can flavors mainly because my series are all the same size and orientation.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t reveal the subject matter yet, as people are still guessing.  Legend has it that some of the rock formations I am painting helped inspire Walt Disney when they designed the <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyworld.disney.go.com\/parks\/magic-kingdom\/attractions\/big-thunder-mountain-railroad\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Big Thunder Mountain Railroad&#8221; roller coaster<\/a>.  A little research seems to dispel this myth, but you never know.  Below is a quick snapshot (using my iPhone) of another partially completed work which is somewhere in the middle of the series&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gondola1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"690\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/big-thunder-mountain\/gondola1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gondola1.jpg?fit=360%2C480\" data-orig-size=\"360,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Big Thunder\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gondola1.jpg?fit=225%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gondola1.jpg?fit=360%2C480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gondola1.jpg?resize=360%2C480\" alt=\"\" title=\"Big Thunder\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gondola1.jpg?w=360 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gondola1.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have now done 9 of the 12 paintings in the new series introduced in a previous blog post. I am painting each one to about 60-80% complete, then will finish them at once so-as to ensure continuity and progression of colors, and values, etc. The series is 12 paintings (maybe a few more before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"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":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-landscape","category-studio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gXkU-b6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}