{"id":24245,"date":"2017-05-13T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24245"},"modified":"2017-05-13T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T23:35:09","slug":"californians-express-themselves-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/californians-express-themselves-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Express Themselves through Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/artiste.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lyn Semeta (pictured left with artist Bill Anderson) is an attorney, Huntington Beach City Council member and\u00a0 busy mother of two daughters. She&#8217;s recently become an award-winning painter\u00a0who uses\u00a0art as an escape. &#8220;When I\u2019m painting, I\u2019m totally focused on my work\u2014being creative,&#8221;\u00a0she said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/lyn-semeta.html\">Read all about Semeta&#8217;s art experience<\/a> and perhaps listen to her words of advice:\u00a0&#8220;I recommend you take an art class. You might really surprise yourself with your creativity!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jim and Priscilla Koury of La Habra Heights love carved wood, collecting items and furniture in their travels around the globe. So when a tree fell in their yard Jim imagined what the tree could become. &#8220;At first I saw a snake, then a long-necked dinosaur, as well as an alligator crawling up the recumbent tree\u00a0trunk.&#8221;\u00a0He found\u00a0artist Ruben DeLaCruz (right photo) who was willing to\u00a0transform\u00a0Jim\u2019s vision into\u00a0reality, using a chainsaw, grinder and sculpting tools.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/crazy-california.html\">California&#8217;s Fun Things to See<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Outdoor desert art in Joshua Tree<\/li>\n<li>Cabazon Dinosaurs<\/li>\n<li>Drive-thru Trees<\/li>\n<li>Boat Houses in Encinitas<\/li>\n<li>Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo<\/li>\n<li>World&#8217;s Tallest Totem Pole in McKinleyville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyn Semeta (pictured left with artist Bill Anderson) is an attorney, Huntington Beach City Council member and\u00a0 busy mother of two daughters. She&#8217;s recently become an award-winning painter\u00a0who uses\u00a0art as an escape. &#8220;When I\u2019m painting, I\u2019m totally focused on my work\u2014being creative,&#8221;\u00a0she said. Read all about Semeta&#8217;s art experience and perhaps listen to her words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}