{"id":1185,"date":"2017-07-04T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2017-07-03T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T18:41:42","slug":"sketch-of-the-day-daily-watercolour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2017\/07\/sketch-of-the-day-daily-watercolour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the day: daily watercolour #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s paper is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrysartarama.com\/the-langton-prestige-watercolour-blocks\" target=\"_blank\">Daler-Rowney&#8217;s Langton Prestige<\/a>, 140lb\/300gsm cold press\/&#8221;not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sotd_20170702_500px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"731\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sotd_20170702_500px.png 500w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sotd_20170702_500px-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like it all that much. This drawing incorporates homemade paints, Indigo, Japanese-style Kuretake Gansai Tambi paint (did not play well with the paper), and various commercial-brand watercolours (Sennelier, M Graham, MaimeriBlu, &#038; Daniel Smith). The paper holds up perfectly fine to lots of water (which seems to dry oddly quickly), to lifting\/scrubbing off paint, and layering. I think the various paints look a bit lifeless, in a way that&#8217;s hard to quantify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s paper is Daler-Rowney&#8217;s Langton Prestige, 140lb\/300gsm cold press\/&#8221;not.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t like it all that much. This drawing incorporates homemade paints, Indigo, Japanese-style Kuretake Gansai Tambi paint (did not play well with the paper), and various commercial-brand watercolours (Sennelier, M[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2017\/07\/sketch-of-the-day-daily-watercolour-2\/\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}