{"id":310,"date":"2008-06-24T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T05:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-08-04T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T03:17:05","slug":"altered-book-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/altered-book-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Book Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great day! We started by having lunch at one of our favorite Mexican Restaurants and afterwards we visited a local Art Gallery and walked through a couple of antique stores.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312\" title=\"chipsandsalsa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/teaandchips-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/teaandchips-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/teaandchips.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salsa &amp; Chips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-311\" title=\"lunch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/guscouldntwait-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/guscouldntwait-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/guscouldntwait.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Course<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Later, when we got home, I felt inspired to begin an altered book project. A few months ago I had purchased a couple of old hardbound books and they were just sitting on one of my bookshelves gathering dust.<\/p>\n<p>I selected one with a light blue cover, and began removing the pages because  I wanted to use only the cover instead of the whole book. After preparing the cover with gesso, I set it aside to dry.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, I will be able to work on it some more tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313\" title=\"First coat of gesso\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/gessoedbookcover1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/gessoedbookcover1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/gessoedbookcover1.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great day! We started by having lunch at one of our favorite Mexican Restaurants and afterwards we visited a local Art Gallery and walked through a couple of antique stores. Salsa &amp; Chips Main Course Later, when we got home, I felt inspired to begin an altered book project. A few months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[175,177,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}