{"id":12884,"date":"2013-09-02T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=12884"},"modified":"2013-09-02T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T13:38:43","slug":"new-painting-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/new-painting-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"New painting: The Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"eventDate\">2009 &#8211; August 2013<\/div>\n<p>I started this painting back in 2009&#8230;well, I say &#8216;started&#8217; but really I just did the vaguest of backgrounds and then left the board to stand around gathering dust (and a shocking amount of cat fur&#8230;) for 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really pleased to finally have finished it! Though it was a mission to paint because I don&#8217;t have an easel and so had to do most of it lying on the floor. Think it&#8217;s definitely time I rectify that.<a  href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_LMcC_8360.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\" data-rl_title=\"The Messenger (2013)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"The Messenger (2013)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12885\" alt=\"The Messenger (2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_LMcC_8360-575x381.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_LMcC_8360-575x381.jpg 575w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_LMcC_8360-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_LMcC_8360.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oil &amp; acrylic on masonite board, 1.2 x 0.8 m<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some detail and process pics after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12884 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/painting_LMcC_4012.jpg' title=\"The Messenger: WIP (2009)\" data-rl_title=\"The Messenger: WIP (2009)\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/painting_LMcC_4012-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The Messenger: WIP (2009)\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/painting_LMcC_0210.jpg' title=\"The Messenger: WIP\" data-rl_title=\"The Messenger: WIP\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/painting_LMcC_0210-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The Messenger: WIP\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/painting-wip_lmcc_4193.jpg' title=\"The Messenger: WIP\" data-rl_title=\"The Messenger: WIP\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/painting-wip_lmcc_4193-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The Messenger: WIP\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/painting-wip_LMcC_4198.jpg' title=\"The Messenger: WIP\" data-rl_title=\"The Messenger: WIP\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/painting-wip_LMcC_4198-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The Messenger: WIP\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_detail1.jpg' title=\"The Messenger (detail)\" data-rl_title=\"The Messenger (detail)\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_detail1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The Messenger (detail)\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_detail2.jpg' title=\"The Messenger (detail)\" data-rl_title=\"The Messenger (detail)\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/messenger-painting2013_detail2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The Messenger (detail)\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of my paintings <a title=\"Painting\" href=\"\/work\/Painting\/\" target=\"_blank\">in my portfolio over here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009 &#8211; August 2013 I started this painting back in 2009&#8230;well, I say &#8216;started&#8217; but really I just did the vaguest of backgrounds and then left the board to stand around gathering dust (and a shocking amount of cat fur&#8230;) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/new-painting-the-messenger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[949,189,951,163,955,230,950,286,958,952,19,956,957,959,887,184,287,143,649,285,145,954,324,953,302,360,693,214],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-acrylic","tag-art-2","tag-aurora","tag-birds","tag-crow","tag-dark","tag-fantasy","tag-girl","tag-harbinger","tag-lake","tag-memories","tag-message","tag-messenger","tag-mystery","tag-night","tag-nights","tag-oil","tag-outdoors","tag-outside","tag-painting","tag-portrait","tag-raven","tag-sky","tag-stars","tag-surreal","tag-weather","tag-wind","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12909,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions\/12909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}