{"id":12398,"date":"2020-03-24T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2020-04-13T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T20:05:22","slug":"the-amarna-family-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/24\/the-amarna-family-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amarna Family Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The eagle-eyed will have noticed that I now have a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ko-fi (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/virtuosewadventures\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi<\/a> account. I&#8217;ve been meaning to do that for a while, but the current situation has given me plenty of time in which to do so. At the moment, the hope is that any &#8220;coffees&#8221; will help with the costs of running this blog, but in the next couple of years, I hope they could also help with venue costs to hold an exhibition of &#8220;Dreams of Amarna&#8221; embroidery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to learn a few new tricks while we all need to keep safe at home, trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and one of them relates to this project. It occurred to me that people may need something gentle to watch, so I&#8217;m going to try to work out how to do little videos of the stitching. So, health permitting, watch this space&#8230;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialTwo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialTwo.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12373\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialTwo.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/dav-59\/\" class=\"wp-image-12373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialTwo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialTwo-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialTwo-768x924.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Version 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialThree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"864\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialThree.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12372\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialThree.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/dav-58\/\" class=\"wp-image-12372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialThree.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialThree-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialThree-768x829.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Version 2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialOne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialOne.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12371\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialOne.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/mde\/\" class=\"wp-image-12371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialOne.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialOne-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FamilyGroupTrialOne-768x819.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Version 3<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Colour experiments for the Amarna Family Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had thought that once I&#8217;d done the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Faience Necklace (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/faience-necklace\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faience Necklace<\/a>, and finished the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Hunting Cat Fresco (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/hunting-cat-fresco\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunting Cat Fresco<\/a>, that would be all for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Dreams of Amarna (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/dreams-of-amarna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dreams of Amarna<\/a>, but then it occurred to me that the informality and intimacy of the depictions of the Royal Family in Amarna-period art was one of the reasons it has caught and held our attention. Mary Chubb describes the scene depicted on this stele in her book (there are several broadly similar scenes), and it came to my mind in conjunction with the bejewelled golden chair in Tutankhamun&#8217;s tomb which shows him with his wife in a similarly informal pose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BorderPatterns.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BorderPatterns-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"Border Patterns\" class=\"wp-image-12405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BorderPatterns-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BorderPatterns-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BorderPatterns-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BorderPatterns.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A variety of Egyptian border patterns being experimented with..<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to work it in or nu\u00e9. I&#8217;ve been playing with my paints and some prints of the stele, trying to find a satisfying arrangement of colours, and work out what I&#8217;m not going to include &#8211; for instance, the hieroglyphs, at least half the rays of the Aten sun disc, and the gold torques in Akhenaten&#8217;s lap. I&#8217;m struggling a little with colourings, because the grey background of the print rewards the use of yellow (\/gold) whereas on the background of gold used for or nu\u00e9 that colour becomes insignificant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I need to plan a border for it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eagle-eyed will have noticed that I now have a Ko-fi account. I&#8217;ve been meaning to do that for a while, but the current situation has given me plenty of time in which to do so. At the moment, the hope is that any &#8220;coffees&#8221; will help with the costs of running this blog, but&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/24\/the-amarna-family-group\/\">Continue Reading The Amarna Family Group<\/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":[221,155,158,59,222],"class_list":["post-12398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-amarna-family-group","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-goldwork","tag-or-nue","tag-slowtvstitchery","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398","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=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12412,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions\/12412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}