{"id":210,"date":"2026-05-26T11:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/?p=210"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:10:36","slug":"graphosoma-italicum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/blog\/graphosoma-italicum\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphosoma italicum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing wrong with trying out a new medium, everything wrong with the medium refusing to work the way it does according to the packaging. This is the third time, I&#8217;ve tried using Keramiplast to make a little thing and we are all very excited to find out if acrylic paint will stick to it as soon as it is dried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_21-10-33-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A raw sand colored ceramiclay sculpture of a flat shield bug. It doesn't have any color yet and is very fresh and still drying. Its antennae consists of two black metal cable binders.\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_21-10-33-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_21-10-33-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_21-10-33-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_21-10-33-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_21-10-33-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Graphosoma italicum<\/em> is a very colorful shield bug I first spotted two years ago. With its black and orange stripes and the carefree attitude a lot of shield bugs show, it is true pleasure to look at, stumbling around on flowers, drunk on nectar and pollen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_19-05-49-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Rawest version of the still wet flat bug figure without antennae, next to some tools that were used to shape it.\" class=\"wp-image-212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_19-05-49-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_19-05-49-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_19-05-49-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_19-05-49-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-25_19-05-49.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing wrong with trying out a new medium, everything wrong with the medium refusing to work the way it does according to the packaging. This is the third time, I&#8217;ve tried using Keramiplast to make a little thing and we are all very excited to find out if acrylic paint will stick to it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weirdmustard.de\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}