{"id":211,"date":"2020-06-20T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2022-01-29T21:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:20:55","slug":"the-birth-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/projects-and-artworks\/ebru\/the-birth-of-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fifth artwork in the series (we&#8217;re inching closer to the full cycle being posted here), done in the ancient ebru technique but with a slight twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See, we can use specialized paints, additives mixed with water, special paper to transfer paint onto or just plain oil paint mixed with a bit of diluent (which admittedly works just as well) and office paper. Actually, it proved to be quite an effective way to learn or teach this technique and start experimenting with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now imagine yourself being present in the moment of creation of something beautiful, magestic even. You have no idea what it will be or how exactly it will look like&#8230; because it has no finished form. Yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How would you describe a feeling invoked? How would you explain it? What image to use? This picture is my take on these questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s next artwork in series (now you don&#8217;t have to go back, scroll and click again! Yes, I&#8217;m reusing this text):<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/projects-and-artworks\/ebru\/black-hole\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Black Hole\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"109\" src=\"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Black-Hole-2018-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Black-Hole-2018-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Black-Hole-2018-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Black-Hole-2018-1024x744.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Black-Hole-2018-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Black-Hole-2018-1536x1116.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Black-Hole-2018-2048x1488.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Black Hole<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\"><div class=\"entry-summary\"><br \/>\n6th work in the series of 8 and partially the reason as to why this cycle is named &#8220;Hubble series&#8221;.&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nFifth artwork in the series (we&#8217;re inching closer to the full cycle being posted here), done in the ancient ebru&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/projects-and-artworks\/ebru\/the-birth-of-venus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The birth of Venus&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"parent":701,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions\/824"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volodymyrsnihur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}