This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p>
This is Hopey the cat. This unique project began with a purchased cement garden ornament. I painted her from multiple photographs supplied by the family to resemble their beloved family pet.\u00a0 It was important to give some life to the face.\u00a0 I painted just a little eye peeking out from the sleeping face with which the cement was originally cast. \u00a0I think it makes all the difference. \u00a0When you come across Hopey ‘sleeping’ in the garden you have to look twice to see she isn’t going to wake up and meow at you!\u00a0 I have included a picture of what the cement cat looked like early in the painting process when I had just begun to add some color over my coats of white sealant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is Hopey the cat. This unique project began with a purchased cement garden ornament. I painted her from multiple photographs supplied by the family to resemble their beloved family pet.\u00a0 It was important to give some life to the face.\u00a0 I painted just a little eye peeking out from the sleeping face with which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34],"tags":[127,275,249,274],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commisioned-work","category-small-things","tag-cat","tag-cement-ornament","tag-garden","tag-realism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Cat-garden-ornament-3.jpg?fit=640%2C480","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3UDxD-tG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}