{"id":2691,"date":"2024-05-28T21:20:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T02:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2024-05-28T21:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T02:32:54","slug":"pine-using-ballpoint-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"Pine using Ballpoint Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" data-attachment-id=\"2695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?attachment_id=2695\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1822\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited-1024x729.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited-1536x1093.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pinenearwaterdrawing_Edited-2048x1458.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>10&#8243; x 14&#8243;, ballpoint ink on Khadi watercolor paper<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I completed a small pencil sketch of this same scene a few months ago, and I kept it in the back of my mind that I&#8217;d like to do a larger piece. So, I did. Although I really like using a simple ballpoint pen, I have some concerns about the ink fading, absorbing into the paper, or containing strange, acidic ingredients. I&#8217;ll probably call it a fad and return to fountain pens, but it was awfully nice to create such a nice, inky-dark drawing with one simple tool. Well, I also used a water brush to lightly dilute some of the ink, which was mildly water soluble. I like that little bit of shading it creates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10&#8243; x 14&#8243;, ballpoint ink on Khadi watercolor paper I completed a small pencil sketch of this same scene a few months ago, and I kept it in the back of my mind that I&#8217;d like to do a larger piece. So, I did. Although I really like using a simple ballpoint pen, I have [&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":[380,566],"tags":[675,415,669,45],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ink","tag-ballpoint-pen","tag-drawing","tag-khadi-paper","tag-tree"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-Hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","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=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}