{"id":960,"date":"2014-04-22T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/?p=960"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:03:18","slug":"gone-fishing-memorial-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paintedfurniturebysue.com\/gallery\/gone-fishing-memorial-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"“Gone Fishing” Memorial Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
This stone was commissioned as a memorial to a loved one. I painted the motorboat at its regular mooring with “Johnny’s” hat painted in Trompe L’oeil style. I worked from photos of his boat and the lake where he moored it, but I had Johnny’s real hat sitting on my work table as I painted it. I tried to capture the feel of the canvas fabric and the stitching. It was such a big hat that I could not make it life size or it would have covered the whole surface! A simple message on the side says it all. The stone is about 16 ” in diameter and 2 inches thick. The shape of the stone suggested a heart to me; It was all I needed for inspiration. My first step in starting the piece was to block it in with chalk.\u00a0 It was finished with a resin sealant.<\/p>\n
Memorial to a Fisherman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,29],"tags":[166,33,168,165,37,77,80,88,55,167],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commisioned-work","category-slate","tag-hat","tag-lettering","tag-memorial","tag-motorboat","tag-scene","tag-sky","tag-sports","tag-trompe-loeil","tag-vehicles","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t