{"id":2784,"date":"2017-05-08T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2023-08-13T12:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:28:57","slug":"deep-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"Deep Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/gallery-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0268-863x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0268\" width=\"354\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0268-863x1024.jpg 863w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0268-253x300.jpg 253w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0268-768x912.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0268.jpg 1454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.75 x 4.625 inches. \u00a0Hand embroidery on hand-painted silk.<\/p>\n<p>I painted the background, and underpainted the water. \u00a0You can see from the in-progress picture below that I also painted some of the left-hand edge of the spare silk a medium blue. \u00a0I used some strands of that deeper blue for the hull of the distant sailing boat because I didn&#8217;t have any regular thread that was fine enough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/In-progress-further-on-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"In progress - further on\" width=\"559\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/In-progress-further-on-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/In-progress-further-on-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/In-progress-further-on-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Early on in making this picture, I accidentally put a blob of &#8220;land&#8221; paint in the water. \u00a0Uh-oh! \u00a0I thought about inventing some more rocky outcrops to hide it, but instead I flipped the whole composition from left to right. \u00a0That way, the blob became part of the land on the left and even I can&#8217;t find it any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.75 x 4.625 inches. \u00a0Hand embroidery on hand-painted silk. I painted the background, and underpainted the water. \u00a0You can see from the in-progress picture below that I also painted some of the left-hand edge of the spare silk a medium blue. \u00a0I used some strands of that deeper blue for the hull of the distant [&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\/2784"}],"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=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}