{"id":1419,"date":"2012-08-27T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:23:07","slug":"barely-a-ripple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Barely a Ripple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1427\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ducky_54561-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ducky_54561-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ducky_54561.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a duck in Beaver Lake in Vancouver&#8217;s Stanley Park. \u00a0There are beavers there too now, but we didn&#8217;t see them yet &#8211; just their teethmarks.<\/p>\n<p>I used my water wibble technique to paint the far background. \u00a0Water wibble what now?\u00a0 It means I get plenty of wet paint on the brush and let it doodle around on the silk how it wants. \u00a0The less effort you put in, the more it&#8217;ll look like water, in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>The reflections of the grasses are done using silk paint that&#8217;s almost dry and with heart firmly in mouth. \u00a0Make a mess here, and all of a sudden you have more sewing to do! \u00a0The duck and grasses are hand-stitched, and there&#8217;s a little clump of free motion machine embroidery making up the grasses at the bottom right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d sure love to see those beavers. \u00a0In the meantime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/Stanley+Park+ecology+being+transformed+beaver+time+with+video\/6896970\/story.html\">here&#8217;s a Vancouver Sun article and video<\/a> of them, possibly featuring my paddling friend above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a duck in Beaver Lake in Vancouver&#8217;s Stanley Park. \u00a0There are beavers there too now, but we didn&#8217;t see them yet &#8211; just their teethmarks. I used my water wibble technique to paint the far background. \u00a0Water wibble what now?\u00a0 It means I get plenty of wet paint on the brush and let it [&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\/1419"}],"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=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}