{"id":661,"date":"2011-05-13T21:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T03:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=661"},"modified":"2011-05-13T21:37:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T03:37:17","slug":"american-night-sidewalk-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"American night sidewalk (Baltimore)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/american-urban-sidewalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-662\" title=\"american urban sidewalk\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/american-urban-sidewalk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-urban-sidewalk.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-urban-sidewalk-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/american-urban-sidewalk-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one hundred and thirty-three:<\/strong> Making these daily sketches has become such a quotidian routine, that when I&#8217;m traveling it really shakes things up. Did I bring the digital drawing pad? Will I have internet? Where will I set up my computer? What will I draw? Tonight I made this sketch in a Baltimore hotel room, sitting on a couch in the dark with both the computer and the pad in my lap. A little awkward, but I went with it. I snapped a shot of a street corner on my way home from dinner, and used a very fine black pencil to sketch it. The only remotely straight lines I could muster given my couch-slouch position were vertical, yet this turned out to be just what I needed to create a variety of shades of glass and reflections of light. I was going to call this picture &#8220;Baltimore Sidewalk,&#8221; but realized this setting could probably be found in just about any big American city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day one hundred and thirty-three: Making these daily sketches has become such a quotidian routine, that when I&#8217;m traveling it really shakes things up. Did I bring the digital drawing pad? Will I have internet? Where will I set up my computer? What will I draw? Tonight I made this sketch in a Baltimore hotel [&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":[31,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}