{"id":582,"date":"2014-03-04T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-03-04T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:36:34","slug":"honoring-the-ewe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/honoring-the-ewe\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the Ewe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0&#8220;clang, clang&#8221; of the lead ewe&#8217;s bell has rang in my ears through the studio window for far too many days and so it is today, <em>my<\/em> birthday, that I take some time to appreciate these ewes before the birthday of their new lambs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-584 alignnone\" alt=\"IMGP9677b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9677b-1024x669.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"408\" \/>Wire and wood form the spine and legs of the armature with some newspaper added in to take up the extra space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-583\" alt=\"IMGP9688b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9688b-1024x781.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have really grown to enjoy this water-based clay that hardens simply by drying in the open air. It does not require firing in a kill and therefore, is wonderful for doing\u00a0 3-D sketches on site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-587\" alt=\"IMGP9696\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9696-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9696-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9696-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9696-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMGP9696-56x75.jpg 56w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My trusty field assistant returns from school to inspect his Papa&#8217;s progress on the sculpture after about an hour and a half&#8217;s work in the corral.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0&#8220;clang, clang&#8221; of the lead ewe&#8217;s bell has rang in my ears through the studio window for far too many days and so it is today, my birthday, that I take some time to appreciate these ewes before the birthday of their new lambs. Wire and wood form the spine and legs of the armature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-about","category-sketches-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}