{"id":221,"date":"2015-09-26T16:15:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenjacksonart.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2018-06-04T19:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T23:40:28","slug":"persephone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Persephone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Persephone1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-222 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Persephone1.png\" alt=\"Persephone1\" width=\"2521\" height=\"2915\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Persephone1.png 2521w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Persephone1-130x150.png 130w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Persephone1-259x300.png 259w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Persephone1-886x1024.png 886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2521px) 100vw, 2521px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Persephone&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of mythology and Greek mythology is pretty high up there. \u00a0One of my favorite myths is about Persephone being kidnapped by Hades. \u00a0I love the idea of her being this kind of spring goddess while also being queen of the Underworld. \u00a0I took some cues from Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Hercules&#8221; and decided to give her a glow. \u00a0I decided green would be interesting because it is like foliage or fresh shoots, but we also tend to give zombies and ghouls a kind of greenish tint. \u00a0Thinking about Persephone returning from the Underworld reminded me of a zombie rising from the grave.<\/p>\n<p>So the image on the left is my original drawing and the one on the right is my rendering in Illustrator. \u00a0Kind of a progression between media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Persephone&#8221; I&#8217;m a big fan of mythology and Greek mythology is pretty high up there. \u00a0One of my favorite myths is about Persephone being kidnapped by Hades. \u00a0I love the idea of her being this kind of spring goddess while also being queen of the Underworld. \u00a0I took some cues from Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Hercules&#8221; and decided&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[170,168,172,169,167,171],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-random","tag-goddess","tag-greek","tag-hades","tag-myth","tag-persephone","tag-underworld","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}