{"id":2512,"date":"2023-02-19T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2023-02-19T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T15:37:57","slug":"american-tree-sparrow-on-claybord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"American Tree Sparrow on Claybord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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6\u201dx6\u201d, ink on Ampersand Claybord<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once again, I drew a bird on Claybord using ink (mostly fountain pens and Faber Castell Pitt Pens) and scratchboard techniques. This time, it\u2019s an American Tree Sparrow, one of my favorite backyard birds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I sprayed several coats of Spectrafix Final Fixative and then poured Natural Glass Varnish over it. When it comes to pouring, I\u2019m a novice. I found it\u2019s easier to tape the panel to a plastic cup so I can hold it and tilt it this way and that while pouring the varnish. I catch the excess in a container. This method creates a fairly thick layer, and it takes about five or six hours to dry. I always find some dust particles in the surface, but if I truly minded, I\u2019d sand it and do another coat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I tried to replicate the lighting from one day to the next to show the difference between unvarnished (left) and varnished (right), but it was a little darker today, but the color is a bit richer overall. The end result has a light gloss which I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, I drew a bird on Claybord using ink (mostly fountain pens and Faber Castell Pitt Pens) and scratchboard techniques. This time, it\u2019s an American Tree Sparrow, one of my favorite backyard birds. I sprayed several coats of Spectrafix Final Fixative and then poured Natural Glass Varnish over it. When it comes to pouring, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[380,566,1],"tags":[356,467,493,461,612],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ink","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-bird","tag-claybord","tag-ink","tag-spectrafix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-Ew","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}