{"id":2150,"date":"2010-06-16T22:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2010-06-16T22:04:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:04:37","slug":"my-version-of-frazettas-sea-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2150","title":{"rendered":"My Version of Frazetta&#8217;s &#8216;Sea Witch&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"2010-06-15-21.47.21_Holden-Beach_North-Carolina_US\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-15-21.47.21_Holden-Beach_North-Carolina_US.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2151 centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-15-21.47.21_Holden-Beach_North-Carolina_US.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"2010-06-15-21.47.21_Holden-Beach_North-Carolina_US\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As most any comics-interested folks know, legendary cartoonist\/painter\/illustrator Frank Frazetta died a few weeks back.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been pretty busy of late (Heroes Con, packing for vacation, vacation, Count of Monte Cristo proposal, etc.) but when I heard the news I was inspired to have a go at a &#8220;tribute&#8221; drawing of a Frazetta painting.\u00a0 One of my favorites has always been his painting from 1967, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/workofartstudios.com\/images\/Frazetta_Frank_-_The_Sea_Witch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">The Sea Witch<\/a><\/em>. While it&#8217;s not as in-your-face battle axe-ey awesome as his most famous painting, <a href=\"http:\/\/usera.imagecave.com\/bowly2003\/newpics\/FrazettaDeathDealer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Death Dealer<\/em><\/a>, it&#8217;s my favorite Frazetta painting for a number of reasons, mainly the color and composition.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably comment more on how (and why) Frazetta&#8217;s piece is so awesome&#8211;and why my &#8220;tribute&#8221; is totally lame&#8211;when I&#8217;ve got the thing finished, but here&#8217;s the pencils as they now stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most any comics-interested folks know, legendary cartoonist\/painter\/illustrator Frank Frazetta died a few weeks back.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been pretty busy of late (Heroes Con, packing for vacation, vacation, Count of Monte Cristo proposal, etc.) but when I heard the news I was inspired to have a go at a &#8220;tribute&#8221; drawing of a Frazetta painting.\u00a0 One &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2150\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-yG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}