{"id":114,"date":"2015-06-05T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenjacksonart.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-06-07T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T22:38:36","slug":"cardinal-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-115 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"image (1)\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image-1.jpeg 3264w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image-1-150x113.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we moved into our house, the previous owners had left a plastic cardinal lawn decoration in the back garden. \u00a0It was one of those things on a post but had wings like a propeller that would spin in the wind. \u00a0It had seen better days; faded, missing a wing other wing broken, etc&#8230; \u00a0I was hopeful to fix it up and at least get it looking a bit better.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, being made of plastic and sitting in the sun for so long had made it brittle so it cracked as I was removing it from the ground. \u00a0So then I had an opportunity to make this guy. \u00a0I traced the old cardinal onto a piece of plywood. \u00a0Copied the details (feathers, eye, beak, etc&#8230;) and drew them on the ply. \u00a0Jigsaw to cut it out and then Dremel to rout the details. \u00a0(I don&#8217;t have a router attachment for my Dremel so things are a little wonky, but I think it adds to the character.) \u00a0I had some red and black spray paint so I did a coat of black first. \u00a0Dumb Steven&#8230;now it was time to put the red on&#8230;oh wait&#8230;that&#8217;s not gonna work. \u00a0Spray paint doesn&#8217;t work like stain or brushed-on paint&#8230;so I ended up spraying the whole thing red then going back in with some black acrylic paint and painting in the details by hand. \u00a0Afterward, I applied a glossy, clear coat to seal things up. \u00a0I think it turned out pretty good and it was definitely a good learning project.<\/p>\n<p>I of course got lazy and only did the one side so I suppose I will probably just mount this somewhere outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved into our house, the previous owners had left a plastic cardinal lawn decoration in the back garden. \u00a0It was one of those things on a post but had wings like a propeller that would spin in the wind. \u00a0It had seen better days; faded, missing a wing other wing broken, etc&#8230; \u00a0I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[68,16,69],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts","tag-cardinal","tag-crafts","tag-lawn-decor","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}