{"id":7260,"date":"2026-09-29T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:05:28","slug":"wip-paint-by-numbers-with-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wip-paint-by-numbers-with-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"WIP: Paint-By Numbers! With Horses!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paint<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Y’all! Ohmygawd, ohmygawd, ohmygawd!<\/p>\n

I talked my husband into stopping by the thrift store this week (I’m still on the hunt for a stand-alone CD player), and I browsed the available art. Behold! A paint by numbers picture on canvas<\/strong> for $1, USD.<\/p>\n

I love the subject matter, which fits into a Western-ish theme<\/a> of found art that’s been haunting me all season. I love, love, love that the pattern and that the numbers are still visible in the original. It takes me straight back to the a 1970s childhood. Only, the paint by numbers I remember were on cheap papers and even worse paints.<\/p>\n

I almost left it as is because it’s so fabulously kitsch-y.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Paint<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

But I didn’t. C’mon!<\/p>\n

I took the acrylic paints I had — mostly craft and some liquid\/soft-bodied Liquitex paints — and pushed a little color theory on picture and covered the number guide. I like the cooler mountains and warmer foreground a lot better. I also liked the undercoating of Azo Gold I used to warm up the whole picture.<\/p>\n

However, I need to bring the horses forward a bit more, and make a few image corrections. There’s not enough contrast between the mountains and the animals, so that’s next. I think I’ll work on both parts, lightening up the background and removing the gray tones from the horses (especially the first).<\/p>\n

I don’t want to do too much to remove the piece-y paint by numbers aspect of it, so I won’t put in shading or too much outlining. I gotta stay true to the material!<\/p>\n

Thoughts? Let me know.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[159,224,225,223],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-acrylic","tag-horses","tag-paint-by-numbers","tag-thrift-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","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=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}