{"id":553,"date":"2009-04-24T02:02:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/touchart.posterous.com\/cherry-tree"},"modified":"2009-04-24T02:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T09:02:50","slug":"cherry-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/cherry-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/art.blodget.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cherrytree-8001.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cherrytree-800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/art.blodget.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cherrytree-8001.jpg?resize=333%2C500\" width=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was a beautiful day today and the cherry trees are in full bloom. I sat out in the backyard and sketched this in about 20 minutes. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>I tried two new things. First of all I made a paper texture in Photoshop using a combination of the Messotint and Grain filters. You can see a little of the original texture at the base of the tree. I then used a large transparent brush to paint in the the rich blue sky. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The other thing I tried was to paint without my glasses on. I&#8217;m extremely nearsighted. I attempted to paint what I saw in order to achieve an impressionistic rendering. At the very end I put my glasses back on to add a little detail. This &#8220;trick&#8221; really worked. It helped me ignore the details and see the whole. I became much more aware of colors and values and basic shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful day today and the cherry trees are in full bloom. I sat out in the backyard and sketched this in about 20 minutes. I tried two new things. First of all I made a paper texture in Photoshop using a combination of the Messotint and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-touchart","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-8V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}