{"id":296,"date":"2006-06-26T06:18:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2006-06-26T06:18:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T13:18:14","slug":"296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"leaf.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/leaf.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<table width=\"400\">\n<tr>\n<td>\nThe encaustic class blinked by last week again. But so that I could start working with the wax at home, I thrifted a vintage electric skillet (to keep the wax in liquid while I work) and invested in a heat gun (which fuses the layers&#8211;a tutorial to follow soon). So, I&#8217;m sorry to all the spiders and cockroaches and trolls and whatever else crawls the garage floors at night: I&#8217;m moving into your space.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nI almost finished a piece last week that I want to share, but instead I&#8217;m offering a quiet picture (above) of five minutes before class ended, a leaf, and some leftover wax. It reminds me of the ladies bathhouse at<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.deepeddy.org\/\">Deep Eddy:<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"eddybath.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/archives\/eddybath.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"176\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nBack to painting. I&#8217;m back in the game! My second commission of the summer (and a curtsey to <a href=\"http:\/\/adventurejournalist.com\">Tonya!<\/a>). <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The encaustic class blinked by last week again. But so that I could start working with the wax at home, I thrifted a vintage electric skillet (to keep the wax in liquid while I work) and invested in a heat gun (which fuses the layers&#8211;a tutorial to follow soon). So, I&#8217;m sorry to all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}