{"id":1034,"date":"2019-07-27T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2019-07-27T16:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T20:12:15","slug":"hookmaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Hookmaid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2456\" height=\"3300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ssa.joelselby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1142.jpg?fit=762%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1035\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1142.jpg 2456w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1142-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1142-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1142-768x1032.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1142-762x1024.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2456px) 100vw, 2456px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My sis has a big birthday this year and I wanted to paint her something special.\u00a0 She loves the beach and I&#8217;m beginning to suspect that she might be a mermaid SO I decided a mermaid would be a cool idea that she&#8217;d be into.\u00a0 It has been a hot minute since I last painted so I was pleasantly surprised how much I really liked how this turned out.\u00a0 Um&#8230;okay, let&#8217;s address the hook-hand.\u00a0 For the life of me, I could NOT get that hand to look right and I was getting irritated and exasperated.\u00a0 In my angry grunting I thought, &#8220;Maybe she just has a crab claw&#8230;heh heh&#8230;or MAYBE she has a hook hand!&#8221;\u00a0 And then I knew that it MUST be so.\u00a0 I was going for a kinda stained glass look here and I really like the look!\u00a0 This is done in acrylic paint on a stretched canvas.\u00a0 The black line work is just drawing pen and the white lines and bubbles are a paint marker.\u00a0 I&#8217;m anticipating doing something else in this style because I REALLY do love how it turned out.\u00a0 Hopefully my sis will like it too!\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sis has a big birthday this year and I wanted to paint her something special.\u00a0 She loves the beach and I&#8217;m beginning to suspect that she might be a mermaid SO I decided a mermaid would be a cool idea that she&#8217;d be into.\u00a0 It has been a hot minute since I last painted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[88,506,260,262,23,507,261,508,136],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine","category-painting","tag-art","tag-hook","tag-mermaid","tag-ocean","tag-painting","tag-pirate","tag-sea","tag-stained-glass","tag-water","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}