{"id":502,"date":"2008-07-09T06:12:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2008-07-09T06:12:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:12:04","slug":"exotic-brilliance-blue-and-gold-macaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2008\/07\/exotic-brilliance-blue-and-gold-macaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Exotic Brilliance &#8211; Blue and Gold Macaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"285\" alt=\"I love painting parrots...and being able to get to see them and watch their personalities.  You may already know, most of the time I tend to paint native North American wildlife - but I do break away occasionally to paint the intense colors as in this Blue and Gold Macaw.   This painting sat on my easel for a while to be sure the sheen of soft light and varied feather color came out correctly to reflect the softness.  It also has a great amount of detail work in all of the feathers and the other areas of texture - very fun to paint.  The miniature painting is 9x12 and painted in watercolor on board. :D  Enjoy! - Thanks for dropping by!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/UserFiles\/Image\/2008\/Exotic-Brilliance---Blue-an.jpg?resize=285%2C400\" title=\"I love painting parrots...and being able to get to see them and watch their personalities.  You may already know, most of the time I tend to paint native North American wildlife - but I do break away occasionally to paint the intense colors as in this Blue and Gold Macaw.   This painting sat on my easel for a while to be sure the sheen of soft light and varied feather color came out correctly to reflect the softness.  It also has a great amount of detail work in all of the feathers and the other areas of texture - very fun to paint.  The miniature painting is 9x12 and painted in watercolor on board. :D  Enjoy! - Thanks for dropping by!\" class=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a painting I completed earlier this year that recently arrived for exhibit at Whistle Pik Galleries in Texas.&nbsp; (I just realized that the painting hadn&#8217;t been posted on the blog yet :\/ &#8230;oops. )<\/p>\n<p>I love painting parrots&#8230;and being able to get to see them and watch their personalities.&nbsp; You may already know, most of the time I tend to paint native North American wildlife &#8211; but I do break away occasionally to paint the intense colors as in this Blue and Gold Macaw. &nbsp; This painting sat on my easel for a while to be sure the sheen of soft light and varied feather color came out correctly to reflect the softness.&nbsp; It also has a great amount of detail work in all of the feathers and the other areas of texture &#8211; very fun to paint.&nbsp; The miniature painting is 9&#215;12 and painted in watercolor on board. :D&nbsp; Enjoy! &#8211; Thanks for dropping by!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is a painting I completed earlier this year that recently arrived for exhibit at Whistle Pik Galleries in Texas.&nbsp; (I just realized that the painting hadn&#8217;t been posted on the blog yet :\/ &#8230;oops. ) I love painting parrots&#8230;and being able to get to see them and watch [&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":[36,11,17,18,20],"tags":[48,79,80,88,92,1419,150,160,192,198,1270,246,270,271,273,1591,325,635,357,358,1381,386,410,419,426,434,445,455,456,463,464,477],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exotic-bird-paintings-sketches","category-galleries-shows","category-paintings","category-paintings-in-little-small-works-miniature-paintings","category-paintings-of-birds","tag-24kt-gold","tag-bird","tag-bird-art","tag-blog","tag-board","tag-detail-work","tag-easel","tag-exhibit","tag-fun","tag-gallery","tag-intense-colors","tag-latham","tag-miniature","tag-miniature-art","tag-miniature-painting","tag-north-american","tag-painting","tag-parrots","tag-rebecca","tag-rebecca-latham","tag-sheen","tag-show","tag-sterling-silver","tag-texas","tag-traditional-miniature","tag-tx","tag-watercolor","tag-whistle-pik","tag-whistle-pik-galleries","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-art","tag-year"],"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\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}