{"id":767,"date":"2018-08-16T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=767"},"modified":"2018-08-13T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:32:41","slug":"oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Oops!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I think I’d better think it out again!”\u00a0 I have painted and very carefully cut out my dragon, but ….. – look at him now!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you remember I had drawn him on the shape of the shade so that I could make him the right size and curve.\u00a0 Unfortunately,\u00a0 I forgot that in so doing, I would only be able to curve him on the shade if I laid him down flat.\u00a0\u00a0 When I tried to make him rise up and prowl,\u00a0 his tail rose up with a vengeance and sat over the light bulb!<\/p>\n

Desperate situations require desperate remedies – I cut him in half.\u00a0 By way of compensation for this hurt, I have redrawn his body, lengthening it a little and repositioning his right back foot. \u00a0 I’ve included his old body so that you can see the image more clearly. \u00a0 The join can be tucked under his neck, so all is not lost, but I will need to paint – and cut out! – his new part.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the shade has worked well, and the various electrical bits, in black instead of white and clear plastic, have arrived.<\/p>\n

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“I think I’d better think it out again!”\u00a0 I have painted and very carefully cut out my dragon, but ….. – look at him now! If you remember I had drawn him on the shape of the shade so that I could make him the right size and curve.\u00a0 Unfortunately,\u00a0 I forgot that in so … Continue reading “Oops!”<\/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\/767"}],"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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}