{"id":2104,"date":"2021-06-17T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2021-06-21T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T03:08:07","slug":"pen-and-ink-and-watercolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Pen and Ink and\u2026 Watercolor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My reference photo was blurry, taken in low light after the sun went down. Instead of putting in a detailed background and adding a lot of contrast to the deer, I kept everything soft. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Honest-to-goodness watercolor, something I set aside years ago in favor of pencils and fountain pens. I\u2019m getting ready for a watercolor workshop, so I bought a few new brushes, some M. Graham watercolors, and tried a new paper, Canson rough. I think the break was needed. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time sketching and taking a design course in embroidery, and I have a different process than before. It\u2019s funny how much I enjoyed painting these deer, but using a brush! That will take some getting used to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is, only on occasion do I use fountain pens with sharp line work. Most of the time, my pen and ink sketches look like watercolor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pen and ink in a Strathmore 500 sketchbook. This is a rooster who lives at our new boarding stable. He\u2019s a friendly fellow. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Monochromatic but still watercolor-ish. Pete, drawn with Monteverdi Blue Azure and the amazing Sailor Realo with a Zoom nib, my all-time favorite pen. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honest-to-goodness watercolor, something I set aside years ago in favor of pencils and fountain pens. I\u2019m getting ready for a watercolor workshop, so I bought a few new brushes, some M. Graham watercolors, and tried a new paper, Canson rough. I think the break was needed. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time sketching and taking […]<\/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":[380,566,457,384],"tags":[467,581,452,370,587,450,440,376],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ink","category-pen","category-watercolor","tag-bird","tag-deer","tag-fountain-pen","tag-horse","tag-m-graham","tag-pen-and-ink","tag-strathmore","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-xW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","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=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}