{"id":537,"date":"2017-10-31T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=537"},"modified":"2017-11-06T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:37:13","slug":"more-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"More Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Baby-Elephant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-541\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Baby-Elephant-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Baby-Elephant-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Baby-Elephant-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Baby-Elephant.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Isn&#8217;t he a dear!\u00a0 His ears are so big that I think he must be an African elephant, though babies do have big appendages.\u00a0 But even he won&#8217;t do for my Meander book pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago we acquired a regal red-glazed elephant who was immediately named The Elephant Of Distinction (I like Kipling&#8217;s Capitals). He graced our room for some years in splendid isolation, and was then joined by one entirely other.\u00a0 This elephant was bronze-glazed, caparisoned, schematic, dumpy, and was just as immediately dubbed The Elephant Of No Distinction But Infinite Charm.\u00a0 My daughter has used this image for two embroideries,<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/elephant doorstop<\/p>\n<p>and I thought he would be ideal for the effect I was seeking.\u00a0 Here is a line drawing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-542\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephant-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephant-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephant-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephant.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My intention is to make a lino print, excavating TEONDBIF but printing the background in various colours, then dressing him by hand.\u00a0 Simple, colourful, satisfyingly repetitive but varied at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t he a dear!\u00a0 His ears are so big that I think he must be an African elephant, though babies do have big appendages.\u00a0 But even he won&#8217;t do for my Meander book pockets. Years ago we acquired a regal red-glazed elephant who was immediately named The Elephant Of Distinction (I like Kipling&#8217;s Capitals). He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Elephants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}