{"id":910,"date":"2008-11-18T22:38:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T06:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2010-05-25T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:51:12","slug":"fun-with-acrylics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/fun-with-acrylics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Acrylics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I created an abstract painting of the goddess Brigit. I began by squeezing several colors onto the canvas and then used various tools to spread the paint over layers of acrylic medium and scraps of torn magazines. As I Moved the paint around with the palette knives, this face started to emerge and then everything else fell into place.<\/p>\n<p>The tools I used were palette knives, old plastic membership cards, plastic forks and a putty knife.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-911\" title=\"Brigit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dance2contrast1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dance2contrast1a.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dance2contrast1a-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brigit<\/strong> &#8211; Abstract &#8211; Mixed Medium &#8211; 22 X 28 inches on canvas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiery Arrow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brigit, excellent woman,<\/p>\n<p>Flame golden, sparkling,<\/p>\n<p>May she bear us to the eternal kingdom,<\/p>\n<p>She the sun, fiery, radiant!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Seventh-century Hymn to Saint Brigit<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I created an abstract painting of the goddess Brigit. I began by squeezing several colors onto the canvas and then used various tools to spread the paint over layers of acrylic medium and scraps of torn magazines. As I Moved the paint around with the palette knives, this face started to emerge and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[353,6,351,352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}