{"id":555,"date":"2017-12-05T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=555"},"modified":"2017-12-03T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:27:43","slug":"elephants-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Elephants again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have drawn and &#8220;excavated&#8221; my image of The Elephant Of No Distinction But Infinite Charm.\u00a0 I decided to leave the elephant white and print the background.\u00a0 This gives me greater printed area which is easier to manage while the unprinted elephant allows for more colourful decoration.<\/p>\n<p>But the printing is not as easy as it sounds.\u00a0 I had hoped to use acrylic inks, but they gave a very patchy response.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pink-elephants-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pink-elephants-1-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pink-elephants-1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pink-elephants-1-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pink-elephants-1-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Pink-elephants-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 85vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>lino printing paints did better, but I now remember that I used a press to achieve a good print when I did the Christmas card last year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Yellow-elephant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-575\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Yellow-elephant-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Yellow-elephant-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Yellow-elephant-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Yellow-elephant.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> I can&#8217;t do that with this set of consecutive prints on a large sheet of paper.\u00a0 So, I have cut out my elephant shape in thick card, attached a handle for lifting neatly, and am going to use it to mask the shape while I paint the background of each rectangle of my Meander Book.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to complete this in time for this Christmas!\u00a0 Maybe next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have drawn and &#8220;excavated&#8221; my image of The Elephant Of No Distinction But Infinite Charm.\u00a0 I decided to leave the elephant white and print the background.\u00a0 This gives me greater printed area which is easier to manage while the unprinted elephant allows for more colourful decoration. But the printing is not as easy as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elephants again.&#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\/555"}],"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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}