{"id":50,"date":"2012-03-24T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2012-03-28T16:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T20:09:32","slug":"current-work-in-progress-hints-of-lilac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Current Work in Progress &#8211; Hints of Lilac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This bowl was created over a metal form with homemade paper pulp (made in turn from the contents of my paper shredder):<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DCP_3735.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"Current WIP - butterfly bowl\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After drying, the top edges were sanded to even them out, and a coat of finishing pulp was added to smooth the outside of the piece.  At the point the above photo was taken, the interior had been given a light acrylic wash to provide a faint lilac tint; next comes the final decoration stage.<\/p>\n<p>The exterior of the bowl was painted avocado-green, and the edge of the rim, inside and out, was outlined with wrought-iron black.  Within the bowl, I decoupaged a butterfly, and then the entire piece was given several coats of matte-finish acrylic varnish:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DCP_3744.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"WIP - interior\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DCP_3743.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"WIP - exterior\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, another coat of varnish, and more formal photos, in preparation of posting to the shop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bowl was created over a metal form with homemade paper pulp (made in turn from the contents of my &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/?p=50\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[16,8,12],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","tag-decoupage","tag-papier-mache","tag-wip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jsJg-O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatepackrat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}