{"id":38631,"date":"2022-04-08T01:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T08:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=38631"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:39:09","slug":"about-the-2022-ji-passover-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/08\/about-the-2022-ji-passover-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"About the 2022 JI Passover cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Liba Baitelman, the 2021 JI Chanukah Cover Art Contest winner, was commissioned to create this year\u2019s cover of the Jewish Independent\u2019s Passover issue. (photo by Merle Linde)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apr-08-toc-About-the-Cover-Art_Liba-pic-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-38635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apr-08-toc-About-the-Cover-Art_Liba-pic-1-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apr-08-toc-About-the-Cover-Art_Liba-pic-1-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apr-08-toc-About-the-Cover-Art_Liba-pic-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>Liba Baitelman, daughter of Rabbi Yechiel and Chanie Baitelman, is a fun-loving, always religiously correct and mischievous 10-year-old. Her artistic talent and vision of a completed painting is not taught, it is spontaneous. She is so receptive to learning new techniques and this year\u2019s Pesach cover showcases her skills.<\/p>\n<p>When Liba started her Pesach painting with pencil sketches, she knew she wanted: two candles, four cups of wine, six seder plate symbols and three round shmura matzos. What worried her was her lack of drawing skills. To overcome this, she used templates throughout the design: margarine tub lids for the curves of the ribbons, flattened paper cups for the goblets, small plastic cups dipped into silver paint for the dishes, self-adhesive vinyl letters used for outlines and diligently painted with a very thin brush.<\/p>\n<p>Her joy and pride with the completed painting should spearhead a lifelong hobby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Merle Linde \u2013 Malka\u2019s Studio<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liba Baitelman, the 2021 JI Chanukah Cover Art Contest winner, was commissioned to create this year\u2019s cover of the Jewish Independent\u2019s Passover issue. (photo by Merle Linde) Liba Baitelman, daughter of Rabbi Yechiel and Chanie Baitelman, is a fun-loving, always religiously correct and mischievous 10-year-old. Her artistic talent and vision of a completed painting is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[2466,1276,20666,6691,400],"class_list":["post-38631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-art","tag-jewish-independent","tag-liba-baitelman","tag-painting","tag-passover"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}