{"id":1369,"date":"2012-07-15T20:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:25:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:25:01","slug":"clockwatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Clockwatching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just an update on a new dandelion clock picture I&#8217;m working on. \u00a0I decided to play with a leafy-look background. \u00a0Below right is the patterned &#8220;underwear&#8221; which I put beneath the translucent green-painted silk, trying for a foliage effect. \u00a0I tore up two different shades of acid-free white paper and stuck them to a blue background. \u00a0The blue makes the green of the silk a shade cooler (helping make the background look more distant).<\/p>\n<p>I anticipate the dandelion will stand out more from the background when finished. \u00a0Everything&#8217;s in a half-done state right now, but that&#8217;s a ribbon for the stem, and a mix of hand-stitching and gluing of knotted frayed threads for the fluffy stuff .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dandelion-in-progress-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"194\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1376\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dandelion-underwear-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dandelion-underwear-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dandelion-underwear-711x1024.jpg 711w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dandelion-underwear.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just an update on a new dandelion clock picture I&#8217;m working on. \u00a0I decided to play with a leafy-look background. \u00a0Below right is the patterned &#8220;underwear&#8221; which I put beneath the translucent green-painted silk, trying for a foliage effect. \u00a0I tore up two different shades of acid-free white paper and stuck them to a blue [&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\/1369"}],"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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}