{"id":726,"date":"2017-02-05T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/?p=726"},"modified":"2017-02-05T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T18:15:18","slug":"sketch-of-the-day-tiny-warmup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2017\/02\/sketch-of-the-day-tiny-warmup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the Day: Cold day warmup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>Here&#8217;s a tiny Iusta I did as a tiny warmup this morning:<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sotd_20170205_stage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sotd_20170205_stage-500x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-727\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sotd_20170205_stage-500x200.png 500w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sotd_20170205_stage-768x307.png 768w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sotd_20170205_stage.png 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The squarish beige test swatch of paint in the middle of the paper is a handmade paint I&#8217;ve been playing with to get the right skin tone for any future Iustas. She&#8217;s a little on the washed-out side in this piece \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sotd_20170205_final.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-728\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sotd_20170205_final.png 416w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sotd_20170205_final-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Materials used: <\/em>Sakura Pigma Micron 005 pen; Sennelier (Phthalo Blue, Yellow Lake, Rose Madder Lake), M. Graham (Azo Green), Holbein (Mars Yellow), and Kuretake Gansai Tambi (Orange) watercolours; on Fluid 100, 100%-cotton cold press paper (I have a big crush on this paper at the moment); using a Mimik #2 Round brush that is meant to mimic a squirrel-hair brush at about a third the price (so far, so good, and I&#8217;m not afraid to use it, as I am with my one-and-only Kolinsky sable brush&#8211;10x the cost of the Mimik).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tiny Iusta I did as a tiny warmup this morning: The squarish beige test swatch of paint in the middle of the paper is a handmade paint I&#8217;ve been playing with to get the right skin tone for[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2017\/02\/sketch-of-the-day-tiny-warmup\/\">&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":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}