{"id":299,"date":"2017-05-02T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/?p=299"},"modified":"2017-05-02T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:59:57","slug":"watercolorists-at-work-millard-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Watercolorists at Work: Millard Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using my favorite book, I painted along with Millard Sheets this time. He has a bold, blocky style that&#8217;s hard to imitate, but I loved putting in the horses. I&#8217;ve skipped the final step, where he stipples the entire painting, creating a totally different look. I&#8217;m not confident I&#8217;ll be able to even get close. Maybe I&#8217;ll wait a few months and go back and give it a try. What I enjoyed about this one was the departure from realism, the layering and glazing of color, and the weird sky.<\/p>\n<p>With my first sketchbook\/journal, I painted mostly landscapes and skies. The second book was where I focused more on structures (and skies). This third one is where I&#8217;d love to put in more figures (and skies). Skies are endlessly interesting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-298\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using my favorite book, I painted along with Millard Sheets this time. He has a bold, blocky style that&#8217;s hard to imitate, but I loved putting in the horses. I&#8217;ve skipped the final step, where he stipples the entire painting, creating a totally different look. I&#8217;m not confident I&#8217;ll be able to even get close. [&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-299","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\/p3wmm6-4P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}