{"id":10599,"date":"2012-07-10T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T00:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2012-07-10T19:02:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T00:02:40","slug":"a-salute-douglas-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/a-salute-douglas-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"A salute &#124; Douglas Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10604\" title=\"Douglas-Smith-Illustrations-_15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Douglas-Smith-Illustrations-_15.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"572\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"584\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10609\" title=\"Douglas-Smith-wolfwoman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Douglas-Smith-wolfwoman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"679\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10605\" title=\"Douglas-Smith-Illustrations-_09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Douglas-Smith-Illustrations-_09.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10603\" title=\"Douglas-Smith-Illustrations-_01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Douglas-Smith-Illustrations-_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"428\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"559\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10606\" title=\"Douglas-Smith-Illustrations-_05\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Douglas-Smith-Illustrations-_05.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Peaks Island, Maine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Born in New York City, Douglas Smith began drawing early. To Douglas, the most appealing aspect of making art was storytelling, and with this in mind, he chose to attend the Rhode Island School of Design, earning his BFA in Illustration in 1974, also studying sculpture, painting, and printmaking. What followed was a truly remarkable career in illustration, art, and teaching <em>(that you can read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsolomon.com\/artists\/douglas-smith\/?c=2\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/em>\u2026 today he lives a short walk from the ocean, in a house full of art, odd stuff, and three cats.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Above: a small sampling of Smith&#8217;s engaging b\/w illustrations\u2026<\/em><em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualnews.com\/2012\/07\/10\/illustrations-by-douglas-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">source<\/span><\/a>).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peaks Island, Maine Born in New York City, Douglas Smith began drawing early. To Douglas, the most appealing aspect of making art was storytelling, and with this in mind, he chose to attend the Rhode Island School of Design, earning his BFA in Illustration in 1974, also studying sculpture, painting, and printmaking. What followed was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}