{"id":21,"date":"2012-03-14T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-03-14T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T19:33:07","slug":"fresco-secca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"fresco secco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illustratescience.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/sitamural.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22\" title=\"sitamural\" src=\"http:\/\/illustratescience.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/sitamural.jpg?w=293\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sitamural.jpg 1196w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sitamural-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sitamural-1000x1024.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><em>Sita<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>detail, fresco secco mural panel in progress<\/p>\n<p>Mural artists in Kerala, south India, have painted this way for centuries. I learned from one painter there some years ago, and I have recently started to use those techniques again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Red: iron oxide<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Ochre: iron oxide<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Black: soot<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Blue-green: iron oxide&#8211; just a placeholder for fresh indigo (I&#8217;m working on it!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">White: calcium carbonate ground, prepared in many, many thin washes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sita detail, fresco secco mural panel in progress Mural artists in Kerala, south India, have painted this way for centuries. I learned from one painter there some years ago, and I have recently started to use those techniques again. Red: iron oxide Ochre: iron oxide Black: soot Blue-green: iron oxide&#8211; just a placeholder for fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[60,62,81,89,90,95,107],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-pigment-fresco","tag-fresco","tag-fresco-secco","tag-indigo","tag-kerala-murals","tag-krista-anandakuttan","tag-mineral-pigments","tag-natural-pigments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}