{"id":10788,"date":"2018-05-13T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T21:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=10788"},"modified":"2023-07-15T19:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T23:29:02","slug":"silk-road-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10788","title":{"rendered":"Silk Road Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe have had 6,000 years of history with the horse and only 100 with the automobile.\u201d
\n\u2014 Gloria Austin
\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the spirit of my preparations for the Derby Celebration, I finished the next miniature in the Silk Road Series<\/a>. It, too, carries an equine theme and provided me a perfect opportunity to hone my technique for an \u201capparently seamless\u201d impression when combining a rich tangle of ingredients. There are times when one wants to convey that each element is a distinct part of the composition, and at other times to disguise their individual identity, working with larger visual quantities and textures formed by a composite of scrap.
\n 
\n\"Silk<\/a><\/p>\n

Silk Road Guardians<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon
\n7 x 9.375 inches
\non consignment
\n 
\nPurchase this artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe have had 6,000 years of history with the horse and only 100 with the automobile.\u201d \u2014 Gloria Austin   In the spirit of my preparations for the Derby Celebration, I finished the next miniature in the Silk Road Series. It, too, carries an equine theme and provided me a perfect opportunity to hone my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,18,73,9],"tags":[305,90,308,301,303,306,300,307,302,304,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10788"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17451,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions\/17451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}