{"id":4209,"date":"2013-04-21T02:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2014-01-31T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:23:06","slug":"blending-into-the-artwork-with-yucel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/blending-into-the-artwork-with-yucel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blending Into The Artwork With Yucel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-9735.jpg\" alt=\"Miguelitos Little Green Car-9735\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-9735.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Miguelitos-Little-Green-Car-9735-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blending Into The Artwork With Yucel<\/strong><br \/>\nFeaturing Yucel Soykut<br \/>\nPainter<br \/>\nApril 21, 2013<br \/>\nCalgary, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n<p>For Yucel painting comes as naturally as breathing does to other people.  He&#8217;s been doing it all his life, and it&#8217;s a necessary activity for him in order to keep living.  Since his childhood in Ankara, Turkey to the present time at his home in Calgary he works on his art. He builds the stretcher bars, wraps the canvas around them, and paints day and often night.<\/p>\n<p>For his artwork visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soykut.ca\" title=\"Yucel Soykut website\" target=\"_blank\">www.soykut.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>Several paintings bear the fingerprints and handiwork of his children when they were youngsters.  They added their own touches when he wasn&#8217;t looking.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>He turns everything he touches into art.  He&#8217;s known as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polymath\" title=\"Polymath Wikipedia entry\" target=\"_blank\">Renaissance Man<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>For this photo, he&#8217;s standing in front of a piece of his entitled <em>28<\/em>.  The piece is a 63&#8243;x63&#8243; piece of Abstract Expressionism that started off in black in white before Yucel concluded that it needed color.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>28 is his favorite number.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><strong>Yucel joins his two daughters (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/counting-down-the-countdown\/\" title=\"Zoe MLGC entry\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/celebrating-kinseys-25th-birthday\/\" title=\"Kinsey MLGC page\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/being-a-tool\/\" title=\"Stephen MLGC page\" target=\"_blank\">son-in-law<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/sweet-dreaming-with-baby-ayla\/\" title=\"Ayla MLGC page\" target=\"_blank\">granddaughter<\/a> in Miguelito&#8217;s Little Green Car.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blending Into The Artwork With Yucel Featuring Yucel Soykut Painter April 21, 2013 Calgary, Alberta, Canada For Yucel painting comes as naturally as breathing does to other people. He&#8217;s been doing it all his life, and it&#8217;s a necessary activity for him in order to keep living. Since his childhood in Ankara, Turkey to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,46,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}