{"id":446,"date":"2007-12-21T20:01:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/beginnings-otters-painted-in-miniature\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T20:01:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T01:01:11","slug":"beginnings-otters-painted-in-miniature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2007\/12\/beginnings-otters-painted-in-miniature\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings &#8211; Otters Painted In Miniature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/UserFiles\/Image\/2007\/Otters-1207.jpg?resize=460%2C344\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">This is a painting that I was requested to paint of two otters.&nbsp; This is the beginnings of the fur texture being put into place with many fine, delicate strokes.&nbsp; (&#8230;this is actually one of my favorite parts of a painting &#8211; the very beginning and seeing all of the textures begin to develop.)&nbsp; I love to bring out the finest details in the faces of the animals (or focal points of my floral pieces) with the lightest strokes. :D<\/p>\n<p>In miniature painting, some artists use such fine strokes that they are only seen by magnifying glass, while others use more visible strokes in their pieces that are best not viewed under magnification and carry well from a distance, as observed by a Swiss miniature art expert.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a painting that I was requested to paint of two otters.&nbsp; This is the beginnings of the fur texture being put into place with many fine, delicate strokes.&nbsp; (&#8230;this is actually one of my favorite parts of a painting &#8211; the very beginning and seeing all of the [&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":[6,17,18,19,27],"tags":[55,58,67,69,1055,179,183,194,222,273,278,281,282,421,426,467],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commissioned-paintings","category-paintings","category-paintings-in-little-small-works-miniature-paintings","category-paintings-of-animals","category-squirrel-rabbit-small-mammal-paintings-sketches","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-artists","tag-artwork","tag-faces","tag-fine_art","tag-floral","tag-fur","tag-in-miniature","tag-miniature-painting","tag-miniature_art","tag-miniature_painting","tag-miniature_paintings","tag-textures","tag-traditional-miniature","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\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}