{"id":13,"date":"2005-06-25T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-06-25T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T13:52:00","slug":"wanting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Wanting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/15_yourock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"15_yourock.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/15_yourock-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been browsing some wonderful little paintings by <a href=\"http:\/\/amyruppel.com\/\">Amy Ruppel<\/a>, another bird\/egg aficionado. These are so buttery! I want to touch one&#8211;I believe they have a layer of wax embedded in them somehow? I&#8217;m hoping to hear back from Amy on her technique. FUN!<\/p>\n<p>How cool!<br \/>\nAmy sent me this in her response (thanks, Amy!):<br \/>\n<em>I use beeswax, indeed. I cover a piece of wood with wax I&#8217;ve colored with pigment, then collage on top paper birds and shapes I created digitally, then layer clear beeswax over that&#8230; then I sometimes (most of the time) draw back into the wax, and fill the lines with oil paint, then wipe the excess away. A quick pass with the propane torch, and it&#8217;s set in for eternity. Have you taken an encuastic painting class? it&#8217;s so much fun, and very rewarding. It&#8217;s such a forgiving medium, full of happy accidents!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been browsing some wonderful little paintings by Amy Ruppel, another bird\/egg aficionado. These are so buttery! I want to touch one&#8211;I believe they have a layer of wax embedded in them somehow? I&#8217;m hoping to hear back from Amy on her technique. FUN! How cool! Amy sent me this in her response (thanks, Amy!): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}