{"id":1311,"date":"2010-02-11T03:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2010-02-11T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T13:19:06","slug":"the-oldest-living-fairy-artist-in-the-world-ann-mari-sjogren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/2010\/02\/11\/the-oldest-living-fairy-artist-in-the-world-ann-mari-sjogren\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest living Fairy Artist in the World Ann Mari Sjogren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Oldest Living Fairy Artist in the World Ann Mari Sjogren\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/A-Mgift-to-Myrea-2010red.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1310\" title=\"The oldest living Fairy Artist in the world Ann-Mari Sjogren\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/A-Mgift-to-Myrea-2010red-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Edit Caption\" onclick=\"return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/z12E0\/hash\/8q2anwu7.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;As I heard about Myrea&#8217;s coming birthday, I began to think about a possible picture to send her. I made several sketches, and at last I was satisfied with this idea: A Fairy from the old book the one with a roll of material-together with a contemporary- but aged Fairy- I thought this picture showing young and old would be an appropriate thing to make for Myrea. Only I was afraid I would not manage, because you know I really don&#8217;t draw or paint now anymore. I started out, struggling with the pencil, first making the drawing. Then I wanted to paint it with water colour. I put it on very lightly, because I was afraid of dropping the brush, or splashing over the picture. Even though it is not quite finished, you can&#8217;t believe how happy and proud I was when I succeeded! I haven&#8217;t painted or drawn this much for ages! So please help me Per Arne to send this to Myrea, wishing her Happy Birthday from the depth of my heart!&#8221; Ann Mari x<\/p>\n<p>( Sent from Sweden by Per Arne on behalf of 93 year old Ann Mari Sjogren, without doubt the oldest living published Fairy Artist in the World. ( see A Day in Fairyland (1947) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairypaintings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.fairypaintings.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As I heard about Myrea&#8217;s coming birthday, I began to think about a possible picture to send her. I made several sketches, and at last I was satisfied with this idea: A Fairy from the old book the one with a roll of material-together with a contemporary- but aged Fairy- I thought this picture showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}