{"id":369,"date":"2026-04-05T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:56:52","slug":"re-do-emyn-muil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/2026\/04\/05\/re-do-emyn-muil\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Do Emyn Muil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lgmod2.1-702x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lgmod2.1-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lgmod2.1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lgmod2.1-768x1120.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lgmod2.1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emyn Muil 4\/26 Re-do toned from late last summer, very pleased with results.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Was never that happy with initial results, felt it lacked some definition and color tone was WAY off, but always liked the results of the texturing. I &#8220;re-stained&#8221; the piece with a thin coat of black and wiped away parts hoping to develop the shadow areas and bring out a little more detail. The &#8220;moon&#8221; was equally disappointing but redoing this section would mean repainting the entire piece, which to me is a &#8220;no can do&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Close up and Happy Mistakes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After trying to rescue an older piece that was beyond a simple re-do, I cut it down and ripped off some of the canvas, ended up throwing away everything but a small piece of canvas. The inside (back) of the canvas is what you see here, the resulting texture is very pleasing&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/smmod.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/smmod.jpg 360w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/smmod-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emyn Muil detail of the &#8220;Moon&#8221;, always interesting how one stumbles across Happy Accidents&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260404_122133806-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260404_122133806-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260404_122133806-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260404_122133806-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260404_122133806-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PXL_20260404_122133806-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Out of Order 2026 &#8211; if interested you can bid on this piece at Maryland Art Place Section A #61 or message me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some past works trying to satisfy my obsession with LOTR Middle Earth&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was never that happy with initial results, felt it lacked some definition and color tone was WAY off, but always liked the results of the texturing. I &#8220;re-stained&#8221; the piece with a thin coat of black and wiped away parts hoping to develop the shadow areas and bring out a little more detail. The &#8220;moon&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/2026\/04\/05\/re-do-emyn-muil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Re-Do Emyn Muil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[5,4,62,67,8,69,64,68,9,18,7],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rick-santiago","tag-art","tag-baltimore","tag-lotr","tag-map","tag-maryland-art-place","tag-middle-earth","tag-mixed-media","tag-ooo","tag-out-of-order","tag-rick-santiago","tag-theunartist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbabyart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}