{"id":1190,"date":"2017-07-05T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2017-07-09T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T19:02:15","slug":"sketch-of-the-day-daily-watercolour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2017\/07\/sketch-of-the-day-daily-watercolour\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the day: daily watercolour #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another paper made by St Cuthberts Mill, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcuthbertsmill.com\/st-cuthberts-mill-paper\/bockingford-watercolour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bockingford<\/a>. It&#8217;s 140lb cold press, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/?p=1178\">Millford paper<\/a>, though it feels ever so slightly stiffer, and the texture is ever so slightly rougher. When doused with the same amount of water as I put on the Millford, it warped and didn&#8217;t dry back flat on its own like the Millford&#8211;but it flattened out after I forgot it in the scanner for a while. Layering on this paper is easier; I&#8217;ve been adding layer after layer on the skin tone, and not only didn&#8217;t accidentally scrub off the previous layers of paint (as with the Millford), but see no damage to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer says: &#8220;traditionally made on a cylinder mould machine&#8230;surface is created using natural woollen felts that give it a distinctive random texture. Appreciated for its excellent colour lifting abilities. This is an extremely forgiving watercolour paper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sotd_20170704_06.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"658\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sotd_20170704_06.png 500w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sotd_20170704_06-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another paper made by St Cuthberts Mill, called Bockingford. It&#8217;s 140lb cold press, like the Millford paper, though it feels ever so slightly stiffer, and the texture is ever so slightly rougher. When doused with the same amount[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2017\/07\/sketch-of-the-day-daily-watercolour\/\">&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\/1190"}],"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=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}