{"id":617,"date":"2011-10-17T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2016-01-26T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T06:48:31","slug":"duck-farm-barns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Duck Farm Barns &#8211; mixed media painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_662\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 763px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mg_6563-e1-800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-662 size-full\" title=\"Duck barns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mg_6563-e1-800px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"763\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mg_6563-e1-800px.jpg 763w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mg_6563-e1-800px-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Duck Farm Barns, mixed media on panel, Nancy Duck Hildebrand 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finally finished this painting that I started in 2007. I had started by painting the whole wooden panel yellow, and doing a photo transfer of the old barns that used to stand on our family farm. I also tried some different technique samples such as using a product that creates rust (bottom left) and doing some other photo transfers that turned out very dark (horse in centre bottom right). I collaged scraps of my great grandfather&#8217;s farm notebooks &#8211; lists of numbers and sums. But the overall painting was just too yellow.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to just put a gesso wash over most of the piece and start again. I added a lot more colour and some feminine themes: a woman riding in a buggy, a brooch found on the farm, a home remedy for rheumatism (transfer in the sky), and some receipts from egg sales &#8211; because the women in my ancestry did a lot of egg-selling and butter-making. I also finally got to use the old fuse I&#8217;ve been saving for this type of occasion, and some fencing wire. Overall, I&#8217;m a lot happier with it than the old version. I feel it is complete.<\/p>\n<p>I now have almost 5 mixed media paintings completed in this farm series. I&#8217;m thinking of doing a few more watercolours as well &#8211; I have one already of my grandfather. Between the mixed media paintings, watercolours, and photographs of the farm, I think it would be a great series for an exhibit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_619\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mg_6557-800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-619 size-medium\" title=\"fuse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mg_6557-800px-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mg_6557-800px-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mg_6557-800px.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Detail &#8211; fuse and fencing wire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished this painting that I started in 2007. I had started by painting the whole wooden panel yellow, and doing a photo transfer of the old barns that used to stand on our family farm. I also tried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=617\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33],"tags":[82,89,99,162,289,335,422,638,704,722,729,748,858,935],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-genealogy-2","tag-ancestors","tag-antique","tag-art","tag-barns","tag-collage","tag-creative-process","tag-farm","tag-mixed-media","tag-oldness","tag-painting","tag-panel","tag-photo-transfer","tag-series","tag-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}