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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nStalogy pen with black, low-viscosity ink on Canson multimedia paper<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I based this off a photo I took at the precise moment a Great Blue Heron dove for a fish. My camera, a Canon PowerShot sx740 HS, is perfect for carrying around in my purse, but I haven’t mastered taking a really great photo, especially from a distance. That hasn’t stopped me from using it all the time, and nearly all my artwork is from my own reference photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In real life, the fish wasn’t as lucky as the one I drew. I added the fish and then decided to keep the theme of “almost” going by adding the little, tiny dragonfly above the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ballpoint pen is surprisingly fun but also a little messy as an art medium. Watch out for smearing! Stalogy pen with black, low-viscosity ink on Canson multimedia paper I based this off a photo I took at the precise moment a Great Blue Heron dove for a fish. My camera, a Canon PowerShot sx740 HS, […]<\/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],"tags":[356,675,415,461],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ink","tag-art","tag-ballpoint-pen","tag-drawing","tag-ink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-Hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","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=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/greatblueheron-1024x768.jpg\")
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