{"id":1289,"date":"2011-09-27T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2011-09-27T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:05:00","slug":"osprey-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"osprey takes flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/osprey-takes-flight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1290\" title=\"osprey takes flight\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/osprey-takes-flight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/osprey-takes-flight.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/osprey-takes-flight-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/osprey-takes-flight-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and seventy:<\/strong> Costa Rica photos are a great source of subject matter. I looked at several in my travel stash before I selected one of an osprey launching from a bare branch. A very lucky snap of the shutter! As I studied each candidate (a landscape, a great heron, a mangrove swallow) I contemplated how I might draw it, what medium I would use, and how I might alter the composition. It was the giant wing of this magnificent bird that finally inspired me to put my digital pencil to the pad, and it was a joy to find myself able to easily lay down its outline. I almost left it at that! But I&#8217;m glad I filled in the body and feathers, and gave the bird a real sense of flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and seventy: Costa Rica photos are a great source of subject matter. I looked at several in my travel stash before I selected one of an osprey launching from a bare branch. A very lucky snap of the shutter! As I studied each candidate (a landscape, a great heron, a mangrove swallow) [&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":[24,35,70,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289"}],"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=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}