{"id":1121,"date":"2022-05-31T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:48:28","slug":"15-strokes-in-15-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"15 Strokes in 15 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In May 2022, I took on the &#8220;15 strokes in 15 days&#8221; challenge hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientalartsupply.com\">OAS<\/a> to do the same Chinese brush painting every day, starting with 15 strokes on the first day and eliminating one stroke every day, until the last day I did the painting in only one stroke. In this video I share the results and some of the lessons I learned from this great challenge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/laUc_z-0hRo?si=Im5dOhTcbYMW4vEX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Several of the original paintings from this project are available for sale in my online shop:<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"fu_etsy_0\"><!-- Presentation: cols = 4, rows = 3, slideshow = None, slides = 1, slideId = 0 --><div class=\"fu_etsy_results_container fu_blackonwhite\">\n<h5 class=\"fu_etsy_results_title\" style=\"display: block !important;\">\n<a name=\"fu_slidetop_0\"><\/a><\/h5>\nLoading&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script>\n<!--\nvar content_fu_etsy_0 = null;\nvar waitForDepends_fu_etsy_0 = setInterval(function () {\n  if (typeof jQuery !== \"undefined\") {\n  if (window.fu_is_bot_useragent !== undefined) {\n    clearInterval(waitForDepends_fu_etsy_0);\n    if (typeof jQuery.ajax == \"undefined\") {\n      console.log(\"Fast Etsy Listings: jQuery.ajax missing. Are you using jQuery.Slim that doesn't include ajax? \");\n      return;\n    }\n    if (fu_is_bot_useragent) return;\n    content_fu_etsy_0 = jQuery(\"#fu_etsy_0\");\n    jQuery(document).ready(jQuery.ajax({\n      type : \"post\",\n      url : \"https:\/\/eajr.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\",\n      data : {\n        action : \"fu_etsy_load_search\",\nfuDisableAPICache : 0,\nfuTraceLogging : 0,\nfu_etsy_picwidth : 170,\nfu_etsy_arrangement : 0,\nfu_etsy_title : \"\",\nfu_etsy_query : \"strokes\",\nfu_etsy_searchLocation : \"\",\nfu_etsy_sort : \"CreatedDesc\",\nfu_etsy_categoryIds : \"\",\nfu_etsy_sellers : \"eajr\",\nfu_etsy_featured : 0,\nfu_etsy_minPrice : 0,\nfu_etsy_maxPrice : 0,\nfu_cols : 4,\nfu_rows : 3,\nfu_slideshow : \"None\",\nfu_slides : 1,\nfu_slideId : 0,\n\n      },\n      success : function( response ) {\n        content_fu_etsy_0.html( response );\n      },\n      error: function(e) {\n        console.log(\"Fast Etsy Listings: deferred loading error: \" + e);\n      }\n    }));\n  }}\n}, 10);\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2022, I took on the &#8220;15 strokes in 15 days&#8221; challenge hosted by OAS to do the same Chinese brush painting every day, starting with 15 strokes on the first day and eliminating one stroke every day, until the last day I did the painting in only one stroke. In this video I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[50,51,345],"tags":[256,272,352,38,306,328,97,96,340,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eajr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}