{"id":391,"date":"2007-06-03T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T17:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/2007\/06\/03\/blooming-cactus-miniature-painting\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T17:43:57","slug":"blooming-cactus-miniature-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2007\/06\/blooming-cactus-miniature-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooming Cactus Miniature Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"403\" height=\"471\" alt=\"\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/UserFiles\/Image\/2007\/Framed-CactusJewel-0607.jpg?resize=403%2C471\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is a miniature painting of a blooming cactus 3-3\/4&quot; x 4-3\/4&quot; that I just completed titled &quot;Cactus Jewel&quot;.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a pretty intricate and involved painting.&nbsp; It is painted on ivorine, a simulated ivory surface &#8211; Ivory is a traditional ground and popular for miniature artists to paint on since the 1700&#8217;s &#8211; of course, due to conservation reasons, has now been replaced with the synthetic version (which, though synthetic, has been used by miniature artists for over a century).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I have been delighted with my experience with painting on ivorine. :D (&#8230;and am planning to paint more of them.)&nbsp; Normally I have painted watercolor on board, which would be similar to traditional surfaces that were used also, though a little more modern.<\/p>\n<p>The experiments with this surface have been due to one of my friend&#8217;s, Joan Willies, influence.&nbsp; She has a tremendous knowledge of miniature art as well as the history and techniques, and a little of it is rubbing off on me.&nbsp;&nbsp; She also has a beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/joanwillies.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">website of her miniature paintings here<\/a>.&nbsp; <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"26\" height=\"17\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/UserFiles\/Image\/Sig\/RL.gif?resize=26%2C17\" alt=\"Rebecca Latham | Wildlife Artist\" title=\"Rebecca Latham | Wildlife Artist\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"35\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/UserFiles\/Image\/Sig\/_TurtleClip_1.gif?resize=35%2C35\" alt=\"Latham Studios | Wildlife Art\" title=\"Latham Studios | Wildlife Art\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a miniature painting of a blooming cactus 3-3\/4&quot; x 4-3\/4&quot; that I just completed titled &quot;Cactus Jewel&quot;.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a pretty intricate and involved painting.&nbsp; It is painted on ivorine, a simulated ivory surface &#8211; Ivory is a traditional ground and popular for miniature artists to paint on since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,17,18],"tags":[67,69,92,127,179,230,1637,271,274,278,281,325,527,426,445,452,462],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flower-floral-paintings-sketches","category-paintings","category-paintings-in-little-small-works-miniature-paintings","tag-artists","tag-artwork","tag-board","tag-course","tag-fine_art","tag-ivorine","tag-joan-willies","tag-miniature-art","tag-miniature-paintings","tag-miniature_art","tag-miniature_painting","tag-painting","tag-traditional","tag-traditional-miniature","tag-watercolor","tag-website","tag-wildflowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}