{"id":26165,"date":"2019-08-07T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26165"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T17:45:26","slug":"mother-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mother-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, Daughter Inspire Each Other Art Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/inspiration.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Lyn Semeta (left) and JoAnn Rossi (right) at their art exhibition, &#8220;Inspiring Each Other&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your inspiration? For some, it&#8217;s a family member. Lyn Semeta became an artist because of her mother, JoAnn Rossi, 84, who took up painting 25 years ago, after raising 4 children &amp; retiring as a therapist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw how much fun mom was having &amp; how gifted she was in her paintings,&#8221; said Semeta, a mother, attorney &amp; Huntington Beach Mayor Pro Tem. &#8220;Seeing her create, inspired me to give it a try, and I too, took some art classes.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/joann-rossi.html\">Read story about Inspiration!<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Ways to Get Inspired<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Surround yourself with things that energize you &#8212; art, gardening &amp; outdoors are sure-fire ways to kick-start inspiration.<\/li>\n<li>Broaden your horizons with a new environment discovered through travel or local trips to museums, parks, arboretums, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate accomplishments.<\/li>\n<li>Check out a new restaurant \/ food.<\/li>\n<li>Stop watching the news.<\/li>\n<li>Ask around &#8212; sometimes you&#8217;ll get surprising answers and ideas that will energize you.<\/li>\n<li>Clear away distractions &#8212; turn off cell phones, media and other devices that may keep you from focusing on what you want to accomplish.<\/li>\n<li>Have quiet time. It only takes 3-5 minutes focused on slow breathing to gain a sense of peace. Your mind opens to new thoughts and inspiring ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Inspiration from Art<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Study the works of famous artists to get your creative juice flowing.<\/li>\n<li>Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet are often cited as the world&#8217;s most inspiring artists. Take a look at their famous works and identify things that inspired them in their paintings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Lyn Semeta (left) and JoAnn Rossi (right) at their art exhibition, &#8220;Inspiring Each Other&#8221; What&#8217;s your inspiration? For some, it&#8217;s a family member. Lyn Semeta became an artist because of her mother, JoAnn Rossi, 84, who took up painting 25 years ago, after raising 4 children &amp; retiring as a therapist. &#8220;I saw how [&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\/26165"}],"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=26165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26166,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165\/revisions\/26166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}