{"id":15980,"date":"2013-09-13T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=15980"},"modified":"2013-09-13T06:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:59:24","slug":"im-jealous-of-heraa-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/im-jealous-of-heraa-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of heraa khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15981\" title=\"heraa_khan1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"1143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan1-118x300.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan1-403x1024.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15984\" title=\"heraa_khan2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"1337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15985\" title=\"heraa_khan3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heraa_khan31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"1147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flowers in full bloom, and beautiful, happy, lipstick-wearing ladies&#8230; \u2665! This work was sent to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/heraakhan.wix.com\/heraakhan\" target=\"_blank\">Heraa Khan<\/a>, an artist from Pakistan. She describes herself as a &#8220;miniature painter&#8221;, not because she&#8217;s miniature <em>{I&#8217;m pretty sure}<\/em>, but because most of her work is as small as 2.5&#8243;x4&#8243; &#8211; these are gigantic compared to that, coming in at around 9&#8243;x13&#8243;&#8230; <em>and<\/em>, she makes everything herself. \u00a0I mean, <em>everything<\/em>: the paper, the paintbrushes, and the paint <em>{which she keeps in sea shells!}<\/em>. Listen to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I have been trained as a Mughal and Persian miniature painter. My work involves transforming the old technique driven art form into a more personal and contemporary form of art.\u00a0My work process includes making my own paints, my own paper (wasli) and making my own paint brushes from squirrel hair. I make lots of colors and store my paint in little sea shells.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing! No wonder those ladies can&#8217;t stop smiling&#8230; their lipstick has been applied with squirrel-hair! Tickley!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers in full bloom, and beautiful, happy, lipstick-wearing ladies&#8230; \u2665! This work was sent to me by Heraa Khan, an artist from Pakistan. She describes herself as a &#8220;miniature painter&#8221;, not because she&#8217;s miniature {I&#8217;m pretty sure}, but because most of her work is as small as 2.5&#8243;x4&#8243; &#8211; these are gigantic compared to that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15980"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16000,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions\/16000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}