{"id":1232,"date":"2011-09-14T19:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T01:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2011-09-14T19:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T01:19:34","slug":"pine-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"pine practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/pine-practice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1233\" title=\"pine practice\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/pine-practice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pine-practice.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pine-practice-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pine-practice-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and fifty-seven:<\/strong> An extraordinarily long day left me with little time (or brain power) to sketch a composition, but I wanted to continue exploring watercolor. Playing with the layers of color necessary to emulate pine trees seemed like a good thing to practice. These firs were created by dabbing deep, dark greens over pale yellow-greens using various brushes. What&#8217;s most fun is watching the colored water diffuse and meld together. On a whim, I tried a close up of a blue spruce branch, but this could use some work to appear realistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and fifty-seven: An extraordinarily long day left me with little time (or brain power) to sketch a composition, but I wanted to continue exploring watercolor. Playing with the layers of color necessary to emulate pine trees seemed like a good thing to practice. These firs were created by dabbing deep, dark greens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[35,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}