{"id":30939,"date":"2018-03-01T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=30939"},"modified":"2018-03-01T06:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:53:45","slug":"kaetlyn-able","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/kaetlyn-able\/","title":{"rendered":"kaetlyn able"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/kaetlyn-able\/kaetlynable\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30940\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kaetlynable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kaetlynable.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kaetlynable-49x300.jpg 49w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kaetlynable-168x1024.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suddenly want to spend the day watching old Westerns &#8230; and I don&#8217;t even like old Westerns! This is the mysterious, rich, beautifully crafted work of Montana based artist<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaetlynable.com\/\"> Kaetlyn Able.<\/a> Are you wondering how she does this? Graphite? Printmaking? I&#8217;ll let her tell you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I create dreamy portraits based on found historical photographs. Using tattoo needles and an x-acto blade, I etch into thin layers of black ink that I have painted onto white clay panels. Traditionally, this drawing technique is known as scratchboard, or scraperboard, but I don&#8217;t love those clinical-sounding names. They don&#8217;t do the process, which feels utterly, completely and perfectly magical, any justice at all! For me the practice is part meditation, part act of devotion. I slowly build delicate layers of marks, gradually adding more and more light and life to the image, until suddenly, a character and a story seem to emerge out of the black. It&#8217;s a surprise every time. I often layer these black and white drawings with pops of colorful elements that I paint in acrylic and acrylic gouache, creating further texture, dimension and emotional resonance.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tattoo needles?! What a fantastic way to get these characters to &#8220;emerge out of the black&#8221;. Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suddenly want to spend the day watching old Westerns &#8230; and I don&#8217;t even like old Westerns! This is the mysterious, rich, beautifully crafted work of Montana based artist Kaetlyn Able. Are you wondering how she does this? Graphite? Printmaking? I&#8217;ll let her tell you: &#8220;I create dreamy portraits based on found historical photographs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,112,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939"}],"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=30939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30957,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939\/revisions\/30957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}