{"id":1249,"date":"2012-02-05T21:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:28:09","slug":"vancouver-beach-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Beach Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1251\" title=\"Vancouver Beach Walk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VancouverBeachWalk1-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VancouverBeachWalk1-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VancouverBeachWalk1.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>At only 3 x 4 inches this was fairly quick to do. \u00a0(It didn&#8217;t really take a month, I&#8217;ve been on vacation : )<\/p>\n<p>I squeezed out a line of gutta along the water edge. \u00a0When the gutta was dry I painted the sand below in quick strokes with a brush. \u00a0The gutta stops the sand colour bleeding into the part I want to be blue.<\/p>\n<p>When using gutta there is always a slightly heavier deposit of colour right next to it. \u00a0The paint stops dead at the gutta and has nowhere else to go except back over on itself. \u00a0Luckily that&#8217;s exactly what I wanted in this picture, as there is naturally a slim shadow cast by the foam itself and the sand really does look darker there.<\/p>\n<p>After painting the water I machine-sewed all crazy with white thread in the foreground to look like foam. \u00a0 This is so forgiving, mistakes only make it better. \u00a0I also hand stitched some white wool in there at the thickest part for extra volume.<\/p>\n<p>For the gull I used some white wool chopped up and glued down with tacky glue. \u00a0There are some stitches in there for his legs and wings, and I had to use tiny dots of pastel dye sticks (applied using the tip of a pin) to get the detail of the beak and eye. \u00a0For a long time little Kenny hovered between life and the dreaded fate of being unpicked and sewn over into foam, but he made it. \u00a0His shadow was the last thing I painted, and he was all &#8220;yay.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At only 3 x 4 inches this was fairly quick to do. \u00a0(It didn&#8217;t really take a month, I&#8217;ve been on vacation : ) I squeezed out a line of gutta along the water edge. \u00a0When the gutta was dry I painted the sand below in quick strokes with a brush. \u00a0The gutta stops the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}