{"id":11323,"date":"2014-02-27T22:42:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T22:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/02\/27\/archiemcphee-english-artist-craig-davison\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T20:58:51","slug":"archiemcphee-english-artist-craig-davison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/02\/27\/archiemcphee-english-artist-craig-davison\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11323 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/02\/27\/archiemcphee-english-artist-craig-davison\/attachment\/11324\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1e0zlX6Mp1qzfsnio8_540-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1e0zlX6Mp1qzfsnio8_540-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1e0zlX6Mp1qzfsnio8_540-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/02\/27\/archiemcphee-english-artist-craig-davison\/attachment\/11331\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1e0zlX6Mp1qzfsnio7_540-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1e0zlX6Mp1qzfsnio7_540-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1e0zlX6Mp1qzfsnio7_540-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/geyserofawesome.com\/post\/77492580779\/english-artist-craig-davison-creates-series-of\">archiemcphee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>English artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigdavisonart.com\/\">Craig Davison<\/a> creates series of paintings that beautifully illustrate the awesome power of childhood imagination and our limitless ability to play pretend as our favorite movie characters. He draws from a wide variety of movies, but the pieces seen here all revolve around <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kids play their hearts in the foreground while their shadows loom larger than life in the background as the fictional characters they\u2019re pretending to be. Tree branches have become light sabers, cardboard tubes and a hair dryer work equally well as blasters, a garbage can and a colander are all you need to be R2-D2 and C3PO, and a pair of headphones serve as Princess Leia\u2019s cinnamon bun hairdo.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigdavisonart.com\/\">Craig Davison\u2019s website<\/a> to check out more of his delightful and nostalgic artwork. Then go grab a tree branch and meet us at the park for a light saber duel.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdapproved.com\/approved-products\/this-artist-brilliantly-captures-our-nerdy-childhood\/\">Nerd Approved<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>archiemcphee: English artist Craig Davison creates series of paintings that beautifully illustrate the awesome power of childhood imagination and our limitless ability to play pretend as our favorite movie characters. He draws from a wide variety of movies, but the pieces seen here all revolve around Star Wars. Kids play their hearts in the foreground &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/02\/27\/archiemcphee-english-artist-craig-davison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[358,5449,5450,65,3581],"class_list":["post-11323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-asdfkjasdlfkjasdlkfj","tag-kids","tag-long-post","tag-nostalgia","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11332,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions\/11332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}