{"id":1023,"date":"2020-06-22T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/painting-heliconia-dragon\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T21:00:03","slug":"painting-heliconia-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/painting-heliconia-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting \/\/ Heliconia dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second of a series of dragons based on Costa Rican flowers.<\/p>\n

Red was Etlingera<\/a>. Now Orange!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Heliconias<\/a> have a bunch of different species …and names! As for the painting: as always, practice practice practice! There’s a lot I like about this one. Some parts I just don’t have the skill\/knowledge yet to do the way I want.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Onto Yellow!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second of a series of dragons based on Costa Rican flowers. Red was Etlingera. Now Orange!\u00a0 Heliconias have a bunch of different species …and names! As for the painting: as always, practice practice practice! There’s a lot I like about this one. Some parts I just don’t have the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-gv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1074,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/a-mess-o-practice\/","url_meta":{"origin":1023,"position":0},"title":"A mess o\u2019 practice","author":"Kir","date":"18 June 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Just taking little steps forward on things!Hanging out on my Dad\u2019s porch and painting on a cool almost-summer day.The 2 lounging dragons are from a Smaugust sketch a couple years back, scanned, printed by inkjet onto watercolor paper. 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