{"id":293,"date":"2017-02-19T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=293"},"modified":"2018-03-18T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:34:17","slug":"raku-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2017\/02\/raku-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Raku hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the image and the colours at Color Throwdown this week: it reminded me of raku (which the contestants in TV&#8217;s &#8220;The Great Pottery Throwdown&#8221; tried last week!). I immediately knew what I wanted to create. It took a bit of tinkering, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/bbcfd905d258f53592b2907f7728a784\/tumblr_p5sidnlILh1qccpfeo5_1280.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/bbcfd905d258f53592b2907f7728a784\/tumblr_p5sidnlILh1qccpfeo5_500.png\" alt=\"\" data-pin-url=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.tumblr.com\/post\/171997351301\" data-pin-description=\"Helen Whitehead\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stamp is Inkadinkadoo Delicate Branches. The blue and green inks are Colorbox metallic and there&#8217;s a beautiful sheeny sparkle on them that I haven&#8217;t really been able to catch with the camera. Here&#8217;s a close-up attempt. Shame that half the Colorbox inks have dried out. Not sure why. The ones I wanted to use happily are still juicy. And chestnut roan chalk ink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/877b4664282cca381b221de40159e136\/tumblr_p5sidnlILh1qccpfeo6_400.png\" data-enable-lightbox=\"1\" data-photoset-index=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 277px;\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/877b4664282cca381b221de40159e136\/tumblr_p5sidnlILh1qccpfeo6_400.png\" alt=\"\" height=\"319\" data-pin-url=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.tumblr.com\/post\/171997351301\" data-pin-description=\"Helen Whitehead\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Entering challenge <a href=\"http:\/\/colorthrowdown.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Color Throwdown #430<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-KmZX9wKRQ-0\/WHKsqauZOBI\/AAAAAAABTXI\/0J0eVVtEd4QCT2h7wb7tIP7-OpLzDJhpQCEw\/s400\/swatch430.jpg\" width=\"247\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>also <a href=\"http:\/\/cardz4guyz.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/02\/challenge-157-no-patterned-paper.html\">Cards4Guyz #157 No patterned paper<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>And the haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Fly high my great hawk<br \/>\nLight sparkling on your wide wings<br \/>\nTake strength from the sun<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the image and the colours at Color Throwdown this week: it reminded me of raku (which the contestants in TV&#8217;s &#8220;The Great Pottery Throwdown&#8221; tried last week!). I immediately knew what I wanted to create. It took a bit of tinkering, though. The stamp is Inkadinkadoo Delicate Branches. The blue and green inks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}