{"id":293,"date":"2017-05-01T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/?p=293"},"modified":"2017-05-01T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:31:36","slug":"completed-second-watercolor-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Completed: Second Watercolor Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My watercolor journal choice for practicing, not taking outdoors, is a Strathmore 9&#8243;x12&#8243;, 140 lb. pad. It&#8217;s spiral bound and fits nicely into my rugged clipboard case. I&#8217;ve just finished my second one, and that means I&#8217;ve filled 24 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the final practice pieces of journal two, both tutorials from Patrick Ley-Greaves. The first one has a nice perspective of looking down into a little valley and across the ocean. The second one was going pretty smoothly until I decided to add in the figures. The paper is buckled, which may be hard to see, and the poor people look a little bit like zombies. If I flatten out the paper, they are more like people. If I cared about flattening out watercolor paper, I discovered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k3D5evJYtmA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a great method that works well<\/a>. However, with these practice pieces, I&#8217;ll leave them as is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-291\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"861\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And I spent some time painting this, trying to create a moody sky. The rocks in the foreground were scraped in using the edge of a plastic card.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-296\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0539.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My watercolor journal choice for practicing, not taking outdoors, is a Strathmore 9&#8243;x12&#8243;, 140 lb. pad. It&#8217;s spiral bound and fits nicely into my rugged clipboard case. I&#8217;ve just finished my second one, and that means I&#8217;ve filled 24 pages. Here are the final practice pieces of journal two, both tutorials from Patrick Ley-Greaves. The [&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-293","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\/p3wmm6-4J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}