{"id":8508,"date":"2015-07-09T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=8508"},"modified":"2015-07-03T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T04:56:07","slug":"patriotism-beyond-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2015\/07\/patriotism-beyond-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotism Beyond One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy belated July 4th!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There are ways to display your patriotism beyond one day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?nid=148&amp;sid=32953257\" target=\"_blank\">Look at this flag mural<\/a>. It certainly raises the lowly barn to a new level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?nid=148&amp;sid=32953257\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag-barn-mural.png\" alt=\"Flag barn mural on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"475\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag-barn-mural.png 475w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag-barn-mural-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>Artist <span class=\"storyBody\">Jake Songer<\/span> in Huntsville, Utah describes his process <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?nid=148&amp;sid=32953257\" target=\"_blank\">in this article<\/a> and on the video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2014\/05\/another-flag-mural-for-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott LoBaido<\/a>, who paints flag murals across the country to pay homage to Veterans and all their sacrifice, Songer expresses his patriotic ability with painted flags and in this example the Statue of Liberty, but his main intent is using barns as his canvas for bringing art to his community. There&#8217;s a lot of country in Utah and the many barns that dot the landscape are big enough to be seen but this means the murals have to be extra large-scale to stand out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowstonegate.com\/2015\/05\/artist-creates-flag-mural-in-cody-as-part-of-50-state-tour-of-veterans-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">picture of Scott LoBaido painting a recent flag mural<\/a> just with roller, not an easy thing to do, because you can see his paint process and how the illusion of flowing stars and stripe are created with his shadows and highlights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Scott-LoBaido-flag-mural.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8512 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Scott-LoBaido-flag-mural.png\" alt=\"Scott LoBaido paints flag mural on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"475\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Scott-LoBaido-flag-mural.png 475w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Scott-LoBaido-flag-mural-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Scott-LoBaido-flag-mural-431x300.png 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>He&#8217;s on a mission to paint flag murals in all 50 states. This is his 17th but he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2015\/07\/02\/staten-island-flag-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than half way now<\/a>. Before you know it, a flag mural may soon be in your own town. If not, you can at least fly your own American flag all year round or try your hand at barn painting one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4th of July Patriotism painted in a flag mural raises a barn to new heights on Art Is Everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,31],"tags":[2625,2345,2626,2628,2627,2408],"class_list":["post-8508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-murals","tag-barn-painting","tag-flag-mural","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-jake-songer","tag-july-4th","tag-scott-lobaido"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Patriotism Beyond One Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Patriotism painted in a flag mural raises a barn to new heights on Art Is Everywhere.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2015\/07\/patriotism-beyond-one-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patriotism Beyond One Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Patriotism painted in a flag mural raises a barn to new heights on Art Is Everywhere.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2015\/07\/patriotism-beyond-one-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-09T11:31:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag-barn-mural.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"475\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"269\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/patriotism-beyond-one-day\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/patriotism-beyond-one-day\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Patriotism Beyond One Day\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-09T11:31:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/patriotism-beyond-one-day\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":240,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/patriotism-beyond-one-day\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/Flag-barn-mural.png\",\"keywords\":[\"barn painting\",\"Flag Mural\",\"fourth of july\",\"Jake Songer\",\"july 4th\",\"Scott LoBaido\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Celebrations &amp; 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