{"id":46361,"date":"2017-08-13T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T01:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=46361"},"modified":"2018-09-14T06:35:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:35:52","slug":"painting-mermaid-heart-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/painting-mermaid-heart-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting mermaid heart rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mermaids-two-first-ones-outlined.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"352\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mermaid-bottom-one.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"363\" \/> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve been taking a break from painting angel heart rocks <span style=\"color: #000000;\">and this week I&#8217;ve been painting mermaids. It&#8217;s a trip painting in this small a format but it&#8217;s a really good meditative practice, not to mention good exercise for keeping my fingers nimble.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now that I&#8217;ve been playing with pens, I am jonesing for my<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001VB4T86\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">new set of lotsa color pens<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">to get here. Coming from China, they are very highly rated and scheduled to arrive by September 15th. I&#8217;ve only ever used art pens for final accents on paintings, so it&#8217;s interesting using them to draw with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sakura-38176-10-Piece-Assorted-Moonlight\/dp\/B000GZOCA8\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1502672955&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Moonlight+art+pens\">The pens that I make the dots with<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">are not waterproof when applied atop acrylic paint, so I have to let them dry and then spray sealer before I continue. \u00a0It&#8217;s a whole new game painting on rocks but I&#8217;m enjoying it. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MERMAID SYMBOLISM<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I like the symbolism of mermaids, they are able to \u00a0adapt, to live comfortably between several worlds, and co-exist with many species. I&#8217;m not a swimmer and don&#8217;t care for water sports, but I recall how powerful it felt the first time I tried swim fins on. I could dash across the pool in a flash with very little effort on my part.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mermaid medicine to me has to do with becoming aware of strengths I never had to test out before, adapting to whatever situation I find myself in, going with the flow yet staying in control of where I&#8217;m heading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mermaids-top-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"282\" \/>RELATED:<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/painting-mermaids-the-spidey-sense-knows\/\"> Painting Mermaids, The Spidey Sense Knows<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/painting-mermaid-heart-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Painting mermaid heart rocks&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/painting-mermaid-heart-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/painting-mermaid-heart-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/painting-mermaid-heart-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Painting%20mermaid%20heart%20rocks&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/painting-mermaid-heart-rocks\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been taking a break from painting angel heart rocks and this week I&#8217;ve been painting mermaids. It&#8217;s a trip painting in this small a format but it&#8217;s a really good meditative practice, not to mention good exercise for keeping my fingers nimble. Now that I&#8217;ve been playing with pens, I am jonesing for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47263,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46361\/revisions\/47263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}