{"id":217,"date":"2010-06-23T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T04:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2023-08-12T17:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:27:57","slug":"pebble-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Pebble Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-218\" title=\"Pebble Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PebbleBeach_4632-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PebbleBeach_4632-288x300.jpg 288w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PebbleBeach_4632.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/> Just finished this one today. \u00a0A larger version can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/gallery-pb.html\">here<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s based on a photo I took in Whytecliff Park near Horseshoe Bay, BC, a few months ago. \u00a0As I remember I had been wearing unsuitable sandals (not knowing we would end up at a pebble beach) and was frustrated as the best compositions all seemed to involve my clambering over big piles of rocks to get photos of em : )<\/p>\n<p>The water is painted silk (turns out it&#8217;s really easy to get a watery effect with silk paint!) and the foam and rocks\/pebbles are done in machine stitching. \u00a0I hand-stitched some little spray details including using some light-reflecting &#8220;invisible thread&#8221; to try to capture the wetness of the rocks and, er, water. \u00a0It is indeed invisible on this photo though and pretty subtle even when looking at the original piece.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a challenge to keep those rocks looking jumbled enough and not allow straight lines to sneak in! \u00a0 I definitely see more waterscapes in my future as this was fun to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished this one today. \u00a0A larger version can be seen here. \u00a0It&#8217;s based on a photo I took in Whytecliff Park near Horseshoe Bay, BC, a few months ago. \u00a0As I remember I had been wearing unsuitable sandals (not knowing we would end up at a pebble beach) and was frustrated as the best [&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\/217"}],"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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}