{"id":797,"date":"2009-07-08T00:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-07-08T00:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T06:36:10","slug":"young-native-american-girl-portrait-in-miniature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2009\/07\/young-native-american-girl-portrait-in-miniature\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Native American Girl Portrait in Miniature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IndianGirlPort-0709.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-798 image\" title=\"In-progress watercolor portrait of a young Native American girl in full costume.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IndianGirlPort-0709.jpg?resize=360%2C495\" alt=\"In-progress watercolor portrait of a young Native American girl in full costume.\" width=\"360\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IndianGirlPort-0709.jpg?w=360&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IndianGirlPort-0709.jpg?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was in the mood for some color a few days ago, after painting so many earth tones in my wildlife paintings, so I started on this little piece, which is now nearly complete. \u00a0This is a smaller miniature, only around 4&#215;6 in, of a young Native American girl in full costume. \u00a0I loved the glow of light, fine seed beading in her jacket and jewelry, and the satiny feel of her blouse. \u00a0&#8230;and such vivid color! :)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I used to do a number of portraits here or there when I worked in looser watercolors some time ago. \u00a0&#8230;.and growing up, that was for a time, exclusively what my mother, Karen, did as an artist. \u00a0More recently I have been drawn to painting them after my mother and I were commissioned by the Butler Institute of American Art to paint portraits for their US Presidents miniatures permanent collection. \u00a0I&#8217;ve found that I love the textures and color that I can work with in a human portrait in watercolor. \u00a0&#8230;.and so far, the smaller size I&#8217;ve chosen to format them fits well also (just a little break from solid fur or feathers :) ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the mood for some color a few days ago, after painting so many earth tones in my wildlife paintings, so I started on this little piece, which is now nearly complete. \u00a0This is a smaller miniature, only around 4&#215;6 in, of a young Native American girl in [&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":[13,17,18,22],"tags":[58,65,67,69,117,1371,194,203,246,270,278,281,282,297,298,306,309,325,337,341,343,344,421,423,426,445,448,463,472],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-paintings","category-paintings-in-little-small-works-miniature-paintings","category-portraits","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-artists","tag-artwork","tag-collection","tag-few-days","tag-fur","tag-glow","tag-latham","tag-miniature","tag-miniature_art","tag-miniature_painting","tag-miniature_paintings","tag-native-american","tag-native-american-indian","tag-new_painting","tag-number","tag-painting","tag-piece","tag-portrait","tag-pow-wow","tag-powwow","tag-textures","tag-time","tag-traditional-miniature","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolors","tag-wildlife","tag-work"],"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\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}