{"id":273,"date":"2008-05-26T07:45:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T21:28:54","slug":"work-in-progress-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/work-in-progress-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Work In Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I experimented with burnishing the painting below. I used a stainless steel spoon and applied it in a circular motion to the dried surface of the painting. This process makes the pigment shine, giving the painting a lacquered effect, which creates a rich luster and warm glow.<\/p>\n<p>The paint must be completely dry before burnishing, I used this process on the plant pot, the womans eye, and the darker background areas. It gave the dark area of the eye a mysterious glow, which my camera did  not capture. However, you can see the effect on the plant pot.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I plan on adding more layers of color and detail to  the background, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The image below is a close up photo of a portion of the painting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-272\" title=\"lady &amp; Nature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/egyptianwithplant2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/egyptianwithplant2.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/egyptianwithplant2-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lady &amp; Nature <\/strong>&#8211; Acrylic &amp; Watercolor &#8211; 9 X 12 inches<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.&#8221; &#8211; Linda Hogan<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.&#8221; &#8211; Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.&#8221; &#8211; Frank Lloyd  Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I experimented with burnishing the painting below. I used a stainless steel spoon and applied it in a circular motion to the dried surface of the painting. This process makes the pigment shine, giving the painting a lacquered effect, which creates a rich luster and warm glow. The paint must be completely dry before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[33,149,150,814],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}