{"id":82,"date":"2017-01-07T03:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T03:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2025-12-06T06:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:35:34","slug":"latest-painting-wild-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Latest Painting: Wild Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wild Roses
20 x 28 O\/C
Debbie.lee Miszaniec<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I began the tedious task of taking action on my New Years Resolution<\/a> to spend my mornings on administrative work (like updating my website) and afternoons painting. While there is a daunting\u00a0backlog of updates to be made, I made good progress on my landing page<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

The image above, Wild Roses<\/em>, is not in\u00a0the web-galleries yet. Updating those\u00a0will be a job for next week, and when that is done you should be able to link to a bigger image. (update: Western Gallery is now online!)<\/a><\/p>\n

C<\/em>urrently featured on my\u00a0landing page, Wild Roses<\/em> is one of my most recently completed paintings, from the body of work\u00a0that I am\u00a0painting for the \u00a0Western Showcase.<\/p>\n

I am\u00a0a born and raised Calgarian.\u00a0In Calgary\u00a0the biggest annual event is the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. It is billed as the greatest outdoor show on earth, and the entire city takes 10 days off to celebrate our western heritage. Growing up in Calgary, I could\u00a0hardly have avoided internalizing a perspective informed by our western heritage. Part of this body of work is looking at what that means to me.<\/p>\n

Wild Roses<\/em> shows a little girl in western dress riding a hobby horse. Behind her is\u00a0a wall covered in wallpaper featuring a repeating pattern based on historically iconic photographs of Annie Oakley.\u00a0Text\u00a0in the margin reads “Legends of the New West.”<\/p>\n

In Wild Roses I was thinking about how \u00a0western themes\u00a0are typically seen as suitable fantasies\u00a0for little boys, hence their role models, the Cowboy, the Gunslinger, etcetera, tend to be presented with a masculine face, while females\u00a0populate the setting\u00a0of the hero’s story.\u00a0I wondered what historical western female\u00a0characters\u00a0little girls might choose to\u00a0emulate in their heroic fantasies, and what lessons they might have to teach.<\/p>\n

Annie Oakley<\/a> was an early western female sharpshooter who made her fame\u00a0and living performing with\u00a0Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Growing up she had the deck stacked against her, but through her strong sense of individuality and commitment to her personal strength and vision she rose above her circumstance to become a staunch advocate for female independence, and someone worthy of inspiring a new generation of western women to create their\u00a0stories on their terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I began the tedious task of taking action on my New Years Resolution to spend my mornings on administrative work (like updating my website) and afternoons painting. While there is a daunting\u00a0backlog of updates to be made, I made good progress on my landing page today. The image above, Wild Roses, is not in\u00a0the web-galleries …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}