{"id":1645,"date":"2014-10-27T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2014-10-27T20:35:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:35:12","slug":"two-little-dickie-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/27\/two-little-dickie-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Little Dickie Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back to the first tree trunk today, and a pair of swallows underneath the drummer; the birds will be holding ribbons or streamers that twist together and form a running double-helix pattern around the musician.<\/p>\n

To go with the more stylized theme of the carving, I thought the swallows would work using the traditional tattoo design favoured by sailors the world over.<\/p>\n

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I carved the swallows, leaving space for the trailing ribbons \/ streamers.<\/p>\n

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From the beaks, the ribbon works its way up the right hand side.<\/p>\n

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Starting loosely, the pattern will become a symmetrical double helix. I was pleased to get as much as this done today, I had hoped to complete the birds , so to get a start on the double helix trail was a bonus ~ it would be great to get that done tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Back to the first tree trunk today, and a pair of swallows underneath the drummer; the birds will be holding ribbons or streamers that twist together and form a running double-helix pattern around the musician. To go with the more stylized theme of the carving, I thought the swallows would work using the traditional tattoo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}