{"id":149,"date":"2012-06-13T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T00:22:47","slug":"designing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/designing-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/018-Copy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-150 alignleft\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/018-Copy-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a>Well not designing all that much lately.\u00a0\u00a0Painting existing designs is the main game these days.\u00a0 This is a new Nines design I started a few months ago and it\u00a0spends most of its time sitting\u00a0on the shelf.\u00a0 Sometimes when the office gets warm and my attention\u00a0wanders I give up on painting and get this bad boy down.\u00a0 Nine pencils.\u00a0 I&#8217;m afraid we&#8217;re not very happy with each other. Those background colours are giving me trouble! I tried a version with reds and grays thinking it would set off those erasers nicely but not so much.\u00a0 Going to blues and greens now.\u00a0 Get to play with my beach props.<\/p>\n<p>The steps to a new design march up (&#8220;Oh this is going to be so good!!!!&#8221;) and down (&#8220;Oh this is awful!!! What happened??\u00a0 What am I doing??&#8221;),\u00a0 and back and forth between those a bunch of times. I alternate dead certainty that I&#8217;m on the right track (brilliant actually) with the awful feeling that I&#8217;ve fallen off the track and stepped in something yucky.\u00a0 Eventually it comes together.\u00a0 I like moving the little bits\u00a0 of wool and things around and trying to imagine how it will look.\u00a0 Not quite so thrilled when I paint it onto canvas and it looks totally different!\u00a0 That&#8217;s the arg moment. &#8220;Arg! Now what??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cross your fingers for these pencils.\u00a0 Arg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well not designing all that much lately.\u00a0\u00a0Painting existing designs is the main game these days.\u00a0 This is a new Nines design I started a few &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,7,93,8],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","tag-arg","tag-colours","tag-needlepoint","tag-new-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}