{"id":14632,"date":"2012-12-06T01:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T07:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=14632"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:59:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:59:02","slug":"david-estes-artist-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/david-estes-artist-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"David Estes: Artist Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/447503356?app_id=122963\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"David Estes\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"stretch\">Like many artists, David Estes didn&#8217;t start out thinking art would be a viable living. He studied it in college, but didn&#8217;t immediately pursue painting as a career. After a fellow artist encouraged him to work in oils, though, he became hooked, and over the past decade has built an excited patron base. Though he&#8217;ll occasionally paint landscapes and figures, Estes says he&#8217;s really drawn to the still life, painting the menagerie objects that find their way into his Millcreek studio. He&#8217;s part of an exhibit of still-life painters this month at the Eccles Art Center in Ogden. While his iPod shuffled, we talked with him about fear, painting, and the joys of the studio; and let the camera roll as he worked on a large painting of a crumpled beer can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">runtime: 13:13<br \/>\nwatch the video in an external widow:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes\/12dec\/images\/davidestes_450.mov\" target=\"_new\">click here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Like many artists, David Estes didn&#8217;t start out thinking art would be a viable living. He studied it in college, but didn&#8217;t immediately pursue painting as a career. After a fellow artist encouraged him to work in oils, though, he became hooked, and over the past decade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1520,"featured_media":14664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,44,14],"tags":[947],"class_list":["post-14632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist_profiles","category-videos","category-visual_arts","tag-david-estes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/davidestes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 10:57:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14632"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54421,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14632\/revisions\/54421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}