{"id":1170,"date":"2017-04-24T08:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/?p=271"},"modified":"2017-04-24T08:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:32:42","slug":"watercolor-journals-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Watercolor Journals and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I&#8217;ve painted lots of sketches in all three of my journals. Some are super tiny, but others are more substantial. The en plein air ones always look hurried and unfinished (which they are):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"772\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-266\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0529.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spend more time on the tutorials and the ones I paint using photos as a reference:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"851\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-268\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-264\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favorite of the bunch is the stone building above. It&#8217;s from a photo my husband took, and I really like how the colors turned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I&#8217;ve painted lots of sketches in all three of my journals. Some are super tiny, but others are more substantial. The en plein air ones always look hurried and unfinished (which they are): I spend more time on the tutorials and the ones I paint using photos as a reference: My favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[380,384],"tags":[356,376],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-watercolor","tag-art","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-iS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}