{"id":1533,"date":"2009-03-26T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2009-03-26T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:14:00","slug":"little-will-3-0-with-faceup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/03\/26\/little-will-3-0-with-faceup\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Will 3.0 with faceup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I know why Will has his eyebrows painted into such exaggeratedly happy upward curves. He&#8217;s compensating for a childhood during which during which his eyebrows were exaggeratedly depressed downward curves.<\/p>\n<p>I did the faceup with chalk pastels, sealed in matte and satin varnish. To prepare the surfaces I wanted to paint, I gave them some tooth by laying down an initial coat of matte varnish. I know that my results do not achieve the delicately applied, gauzy, symmetrical, subtle effect idealized by so many painters of Asian BJDs, but I don&#8217;t paint my dolls for perfection. I paint them for character, in all its asymmetrical, messy, uneven, unpredictable forms. My stylized paint job quickly communicates personality and expression, which is what I want it to do. Why should I waste time with meticulously presented layering if I can achieve my desired effect my way?<\/p>\n<p>Little Will is my saddest doll ever.&nbsp; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/lhfdolls\/littlewill\/100_1422.JPG\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/lhfdolls\/littlewill\/100_1422.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I know why Will has his eyebrows painted into such exaggeratedly happy upward curves. He&#8217;s compensating for a childhood during which during which his eyebrows were exaggeratedly depressed downward curves. I did the faceup with chalk pastels, sealed in matte and satin varnish. To prepare the surfaces I wanted to paint, I gave them&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/03\/26\/little-will-3-0-with-faceup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little Will 3.0 with faceup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}