{"id":11800,"date":"2019-04-16T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T08:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11800"},"modified":"2019-04-08T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:16:40","slug":"more-on-akhenatens-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/16\/more-on-akhenatens-return\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Akhenaten’s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Trying<\/a>
Trying Again for the Face<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’ve felt the face was rather weak, so I decided to try again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time I needlefelted the padding underneath, to try to get the nose, the heavy brows, and the mouth in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Separate<\/a>
Separate Face<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then I covered the padding that seemed the better with silk, and stitched the features again. In some ways, this is better than the first attempt, but it still looks a bit twisted. The eyes are certainly staring, but the nose isn’t straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my defense, it became harder and harder to stitch, even though I began to feel that the shaped padding wasn’t shaped enough. Or even padded enough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that before I attempt another version, I need to work out a way of keeping the silk under control while I add the features, without actually attaching it all the way around<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of that, I decided to attach this face in place of the last, and see whether I felt that a face “stuck on afterwards” would be a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"More<\/a>
More work needed!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Well, no, I don’t think it is, although it’s hard to be sure. Not least, it involved removing still more of his headdress. That will need more padding to sit well with a more padded face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that I need a new version, though. At present he looks like an apoplectic trumpeter, and that is not a good look for the Heretic Pharoah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve felt the face was rather weak, so I decided to try again. This time I needlefelted the padding underneath, to try to get the nose, the heavy brows, and the mouth in place. Twice. Then I covered the padding that seemed the better with silk, and stitched the features again. In some ways, this… Continue Reading More on Akhenaten’s Return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[193,155,158],"class_list":["post-11800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-akhenaten","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-goldwork","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11800"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11900,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800\/revisions\/11900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}