{"id":1832,"date":"2015-08-25T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2015-08-25T08:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:06:43","slug":"the-colors-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2015\/08\/the-colors-of-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colors of Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Color<\/strong> plays a big role in the Wizard of Oz\u2014from the black and white of Kansas, to the brilliant green of the Emerald City, from the sparkle-y crimson of ruby slippers, to the golden brightness of the yellow brick road. \u00a0For each Halloween House, we give thought to the colors we paint with so that we capture the look and feel of whatever movie or epic story we are depicting. \u00a0Two main paint colors we are going to\u00a0need for this year&#8217;s house are green and yellow. \u00a0I spent time trying to simulate Emerald City green and yellow brick road yellow, using acrylic paints on cardboard (the final material the paint will go on). \u00a0Once I got something that seemed good, I let those painted areas\u00a0dry and then cut them out, creating swatches I could take to the paint store for matching. \u00a0Hopefully, these will convey &#8220;The Wonderful World of Oz! (in Technicolor)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_01.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_01.jpg\"  alt=\"Wizard of Oz Color 01\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_01.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_01-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_01-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_01-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_02.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1841 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_02-150x150.jpg\"  alt=\"Wizard of Oz Color 02\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_03.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1842 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_05_Color_03-150x150.jpg\"  alt=\"Wizard of Oz Color 03\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color plays a big role in the Wizard of Oz\u2014from the black and white of Kansas, to the brilliant green of the Emerald City, from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[31,22,108],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2015-house","tag-halloween","tag-paint","tag-wizard-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}