{"id":1298,"date":"2011-09-29T19:07:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T01:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2011-09-29T19:07:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T01:07:36","slug":"chenonceau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"Chenonceau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/chenonceau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1299\" title=\"chenonceau\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/chenonceau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/chenonceau.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/chenonceau-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/chenonceau-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and seventy-two:<\/strong> Usually I refer to my drawings as sketches because I don&#8217;t consider them finished. This one, however, is VERY sketchy. I chose the French chateau, Chenonceau, as my subject, but then realized I didn&#8217;t want to spend the time necessary to make a polished image of the bridge-like palace. I decided to restrict myself to working with broad strokes of color to set down the shapes, and then fill in a few details, without a lot of concern for accuracy. It was a lot of fun to work quickly, and play with the colors. I especially enjoyed creating the dusky and heavy clouds that formed the backdrop to the view. And in the end, my picture still looks quite a bit like the magical castle that is Chenonceau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and seventy-two: Usually I refer to my drawings as sketches because I don&#8217;t consider them finished. This one, however, is VERY sketchy. I chose the French chateau, Chenonceau, as my subject, but then realized I didn&#8217;t want to spend the time necessary to make a polished image of the bridge-like palace. I [&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":[71,32,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298"}],"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=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}