{"id":1409,"date":"2011-10-24T20:09:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2011-10-24T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:13:32","slug":"seven-plastic-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"seven plastic bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/seven-plastic-bottles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1410\" title=\"seven plastic bottles\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/seven-plastic-bottles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/seven-plastic-bottles.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/seven-plastic-bottles-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/seven-plastic-bottles-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and ninety-seven:<\/strong> A busy evening left me little time or energy for sketching, so I wanted to do something simple and brief. But I needed a subject&#8230;\u00a0 Gathering up the recycling, I was reminded of two drawings on view at the PMA by The Dufala Brothers, a pair of environmentally conscious contemporary artists. One of them has created amazing watercolors of hundreds of plastic bottles hovering in space, forming clouds or mist. Weeks ago, I thought I&#8217;d try to imitate the bottle painting technique. Once I had made one bottle that I felt was reasonably good (The Dufala Brothers&#8217; are much clearer), then one just didn&#8217;t seem like enough. So I decided I should make seven of them. This meant I had to try and recall different shapes and colors of plastic bottles, and suddenly I understood firsthand that was probably the point to begin with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and ninety-seven: A busy evening left me little time or energy for sketching, so I wanted to do something simple and brief. But I needed a subject&#8230;\u00a0 Gathering up the recycling, I was reminded of two drawings on view at the PMA by The Dufala Brothers, a pair of environmentally conscious contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"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=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}