{"id":1366,"date":"2011-10-14T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T01:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2011-10-14T19:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T01:19:02","slug":"leaves-of-grass-under-a-blue-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"leaves of grass under a blue sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/leaves-of-grass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1367\" title=\"leaves of grass\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/leaves-of-grass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/leaves-of-grass.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/leaves-of-grass-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/leaves-of-grass-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and eighty-seven:<\/strong> I generally try to keep a positive attitude about my sketches, but I must admit I&#8217;m less than delighted with the last couple of figure studies. So I decided to take a little break from that, and dabble again with watercolor. I&#8217;m quite pleased with the sky in this landscape, as I discovered a new way to layer the brush strokes of broad wash to create clouds. And on a whim I tried putting a bit of pink and orange into the grasses. This is an idea I want to explore more in the future. If used sparingly, I think colors like these may be a great way to bring variety and depth within grasses, and in a sense, excite the eye in an unexpected way in a rather expected sort of scene. The short little horizontal strokes that fill the field were inspired by a drawing by van Gogh, in which he did something quite similar. On a similar note, I felt it would be appropriate to layer squiggles into the foliage in the distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and eighty-seven: I generally try to keep a positive attitude about my sketches, but I must admit I&#8217;m less than delighted with the last couple of figure studies. So I decided to take a little break from that, and dabble again with watercolor. I&#8217;m quite pleased with the sky in this landscape, [&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":[27,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"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=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}