{"id":159,"date":"2013-01-14T01:42:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T01:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/?p=159"},"modified":"2013-01-14T01:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T01:43:48","slug":"calligraphy-for-mark-1027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/01\/14\/calligraphy-for-mark-1027\/","title":{"rendered":"Calligraphy for Mark 10:27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I created this piece for my devotional app, <em>Steps of a Disciple.<\/em> I have four more to go before the series of 16 is complete.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_160\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mark10.27.500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160\" alt=\"Calligraphy of Mark 10:27\" src=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mark10.27.500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mark10.27.500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mark10.27.500-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calligraphy of Mark 10:27<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I used heavy Strathmore watercolor paper. I first tore painter&#8217;s tape in half lengthwise and applied it to the paper a few inches apart, then added watercolor paint between the torn edges (where &#8220;Possible&#8221; is). Then I scrunched up plastic wrap and applied it to the painted area, and held it down with a loaded box on its end.<\/p>\n<p>About 2 hours later I removed the box and the wrap, and that gave the texture. I used a ruler and gold marker to draw slanted lines on top, then removed the tape. I added more watercolor above and below the &#8220;torn edges,&#8221; then shot it with my Canon camera.<\/p>\n<p>I lettered the words with two Parallel Pens on a separate sheet of paper, then photographed them with the camera too. The word Possible was about 8.5 inches left to right.<\/p>\n<p>Then I combined the lettering and background in Photoshop, turning the lettering white with a small dropped shadow, and blurring to white the edges of the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created this piece for my devotional app, Steps of a Disciple. I have four more to go before the series of 16 is complete. I used heavy Strathmore watercolor paper. I first tore painter&#8217;s tape in half lengthwise and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/01\/14\/calligraphy-for-mark-1027\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4,58,14],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-calligraphy","tag-iphone-app","tag-steps-of-a-disciple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}