{"id":7213,"date":"2026-08-19T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2026-08-23T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:02:10","slug":"this-to-that-pour-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/this-to-that-pour-down\/","title":{"rendered":"This to That: Pour Down The Art!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pour-over<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

We haven’t been to many garage sales lately, but I did get a chance to pop into the local thrift store. I picked up this pour-over acrylic painting for fifty cents. On the back, it’s stamped “Dana’s Pour Expressions,” which is funny to me because it’s a pun, but a really bad one. What would I do? I dunno…Pour Your Heart Out, For Richer\/For Pour-er, Pour One Out. It’s really hard to stop once you flip the pun switch, and honestly, “pour” stops looking like a real word after a while.<\/p>\n

I picked it up initially because it reminded me of a vortex. And what does a vortext need? An eldritch creature. So let’s try that.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Tentacles<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Honestly, though, I didn’t like it. The pour-over paint was a strange texture and painting straight lines was hard as hell. I couldn’t make my tentacles look wonky in the right way. I snapped a picture, though, because I’ll try it again if I find another cast-off pour-over picture.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Towhee<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

I wanted to keep part of the original vortex, so I taped off a few non-tentacle sections and put down an even layer of pink. Then blue, then added some pink back in. Trying to cover things evenly was super-hard. I should’ve gesso-ed that sucker and started from a better surface. Oh well.<\/p>\n

I added a towhee and used a strip of vortex as the bottom of its nest. It cracks me up because these are annoying birds and I can totally imagine them co-opting eldritch horror to make a home. Who among us would not prop up our basement with a bit of Cthulu? Right. Just me.<\/p>\n

I’m not super happy with this, only I’m not sure the vortex would survive another iteration. I’ll sit with it for a while.<\/p>\n

On to the next…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[159,206,187,204,205],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-acrylic","tag-pour-over-acrylic","tag-this-to-that","tag-towhee","tag-vortex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}