{"id":775,"date":"2013-08-30T19:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T02:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2013-08-30T18:54:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T01:54:25","slug":"sketchbook-page-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/sketchbook-page-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook Page 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-Photo-Aug-30-2013-606-PM.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-Photo-Aug-30-2013-606-PM.jpg?resize=500%2C807&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"blogsy-1377913706347.267\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"807\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Trying out a new Stillman &#038; Birn Epsilon series 5.5 x 8.5 inch sketchbook. It has smooth, heavy paper that takes light watercolor well with a minimum of buckling. These are backyard sketches. The top one was done with gel pens and a little watercolor. The bottom one was with erasable pen and watercolor pencils.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s what it looked like from my point of view.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-Photo-Aug-30-2013-450-PM.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-Photo-Aug-30-2013-450-PM.jpg?resize=500%2C669&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"blogsy-1377913706419.0852\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"669\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> The more I do this the more relaxed I&#39;m getting about the process. I don&#39;t mind taking risks with new techniques. I really like the rich colors I got with the watercolor pencils. For the most part I used a wet brush to draw color from the tips of the pencils and then applied the brush to the page. At the very end, however, I drew directly with the pencils (blue, yellow, and a little red) into the still wet page. This really made the colors pop.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><em>Jim<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying out a new Stillman &#038; Birn Epsilon series 5.5 x 8.5 inch sketchbook. It has smooth, heavy paper that takes light watercolor well with a minimum of buckling. These are backyard sketches. The top one was done with gel pens and a little watercolor. The bottom one was with erasable pen and watercolor pencils. [&hellip;]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watercolor","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-cv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}