{"id":916,"date":"2011-07-08T19:26:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=916"},"modified":"2011-07-08T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T01:26:29","slug":"line-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"line tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/07\/line-tunnel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-917\" title=\"line tunnel\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/07\/line-tunnel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/line-tunnel.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/line-tunnel-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/line-tunnel-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one hundred and eighty-nine: <\/strong>Nothing fancy to complicated today. This simply painting was inspired by a fleeting view of a tunnel in an episode from the new Sherlock Holmes series that I was watching after dinner, desperately hoping to be inspired to draw rather than fall asleep. It&#8217;s been a long, wonderful, busy week of learning in the new job. Oh, and at the last moment, I decided to use today&#8217;s sketch as an opportunity to test some advice from Kurt H., who recommended drawing straight lines with my whole arm, and not just my fingers. While this still takes practice, I have to agree that they are easier to produce (and straighter than usual) when done this way. I&#8217;d also add that moving the arm steadily, smoothly, and not to slowly, helps too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day one hundred and eighty-nine: Nothing fancy to complicated today. This simply painting was inspired by a fleeting view of a tunnel in an episode from the new Sherlock Holmes series that I was watching after dinner, desperately hoping to be inspired to draw rather than fall asleep. It&#8217;s been a long, wonderful, busy week [&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":[18,71,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}