{"id":1735,"date":"2019-10-28T18:15:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2019-10-28T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T23:22:17","slug":"ampersand-claybord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Ampersand Claybord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191027_161444628_ios-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>My husband said to call this one &#8220;Up to No Good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Claybord is an excellent surface for many mediums including graphite and colored pencil, which is how I discovered it while searching for a surface other than paper to experiment with. The surface is smooth and feels like porcelain, but it&#8217;s actually a layer of clay over a hardboard. If you finish your work with varnish, it doesn&#8217;t have to be displayed under glass. Claybord is also a great scratchboard surface.<\/p>\n<p>The longer I play with art, the more my mediums combine. With the bunnies, I used Golden High Flow Acrylics as a background with Derwent Drawing Pencils for the foreground. I scratched in some highlights and then put in another layer of pencil. I felt like I could keep swapping back and forth as long as I wanted to. I probably stopped after three layers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve discovered one of my all-time favorite surfaces, mineral paper, is a great scratchboard surface, too. What luck that I happen to have a huge supply of the thick, 16 pt Terraskin paper. Here, I practiced on it using my new favorite colored pencils, Derwent Drawing Pencils.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191028_223052117_ios-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>I used graphite and the Derwent pencils to draw this barn picture:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191024_151018267_ios-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>In one of my mixed media moods, I started this sparrow drawing with acrylic, put in the autumn leaves with Inktense (and salt for the mottled effect), and then finally finished it a month or two later with the Derwent Drawing Pencils:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191025_112009823_ios-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>And I sketched a ton of horses last week. And one dog:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_2927-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_2928-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband said to call this one &#8220;Up to No Good.&#8221; Claybord is an excellent surface for many mediums including graphite and colored pencil, which is how I discovered it while searching for a surface other than paper to experiment with. The surface is smooth and feels like porcelain, but it&#8217;s actually a layer of [&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":[477,380,420],"tags":[494,493,442,491,478,449,432,422,492,404],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrylics","category-art","category-pencil","tag-ampersand","tag-claybord","tag-derwent","tag-drawing-pencils","tag-golden-high-flow-acrylics","tag-graphite","tag-horses","tag-mineral-paper","tag-scratchboard","tag-terraskin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-rZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","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=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}