{"id":75,"date":"2004-05-07T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/gesso\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T18:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T23:28:23","slug":"gesso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/gesso\/","title":{"rendered":"gesso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/gesso.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gesso.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so I&#8217;m putting the gesso on.  2 of the dolls with regular white gesso, and 2 of the dolls with Liquitex Burnt Umber gesso.  I&#8217;m not sure what I think about the brown&#8230; After 2 coats, the surface still seems a bit absorbant, not good when working with oils.  Also, the paint surface is very rough considering that I sanded after the first coat.  All together a very different experience then the white that I&#8217;m used to.  I have used the brown before, but only on a gourd.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/limbs.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"limbs.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is how I paint the limbs-  I put safety pins at the end of the limb that will be attached to the body.  After I paint them, I hang them to dry on knitting needles and bamboo skewers that I stick into my bookcase, under books and other heavy items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so I&#8217;m putting the gesso on. 2 of the dolls with regular white gesso, and 2 of the dolls with Liquitex Burnt Umber gesso. I&#8217;m not sure what I think about the brown&#8230; After 2 coats, the surface still seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/gesso\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}