{"id":421,"date":"2007-12-07T21:01:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T02:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/mammoth-miniature-painting\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T21:01:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T02:01:48","slug":"mammoth-miniature-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2007\/12\/mammoth-miniature-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth Miniature Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"left\">I like to keep my painting experience interesting.&nbsp; In traditional miniature painting, there are a lot of different surfaces recommended for artists to paint on &#8211; one of them is antique ivory.&nbsp; It, and ivory substitutes that have been made, are very luminous and help the artist create more ambiance in their paintings.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I started a painting on mammoth ivory (I&#8217;ve added a couple of photos of the surface as it comes prepared for painting).&nbsp; I started the piece several months ago, but had to set it aside for a bit due to other commitments.&nbsp; The pieces of tusk are sliced very thin for the miniature artist.&nbsp; I will post the progress of the painting itself soon. :D<\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"293\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/UserFiles\/Image\/2007\/Mam-ivory-1.jpg?resize=450%2C293\" class=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/UserFiles\/Image\/2007\/Mam-ivory-2-grain.jpg?resize=400%2C360\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to keep my painting experience interesting.&nbsp; In traditional miniature painting, there are a lot of different surfaces recommended for artists to paint on &#8211; one of them is antique ivory.&nbsp; It, and ivory substitutes that have been made, are very luminous and help the artist create more ambiance [&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":[17,18,19],"tags":[58,65,67,86,179,273,281,325,337,342,348,467],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings","category-paintings-in-little-small-works-miniature-paintings","category-paintings-of-animals","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-artists","tag-bit","tag-fine_art","tag-miniature-painting","tag-miniature_painting","tag-painting","tag-piece","tag-post","tag-progress","tag-wildlife_art"],"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\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}