{"id":274,"date":"2008-04-05T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-04-05T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T14:31:00","slug":"roman-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/roman-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Posted pictures --><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/couchart\/pic\/002sg7y5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"270\" alt=\"Study of a Roman Statue\" width=\"375\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/couchart\/pic\/002sg7y5\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I had used an image of a roman statue for a mixed media piece and so I had a few copies of it sitting on my work table. I also had an old book sitting there that I had torn apart&nbsp;for another project. My ink pens were also&nbsp;strewn around the table. The result of these random elements being there was that I sat down and&nbsp;very roughly sketched the statue on a page of text from the disassembled book. Then I cut it down to ATC size.&nbsp; Sometimes, that is the way it happens. I feel in the mood to do something creative, but I don&#8217;t want to wait&nbsp;to clean up from my last project. So, I just look around at what is already there and find some way to use it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nothing special, but it is good to loosen up my hand and use it every day.<\/p>\n<p>It is too bad there aren&#8217;t any life drawing classes around where I live that are open to artists in general. It would really be nice to&nbsp;be able to draw the human form&nbsp;from life again like I did in my college days.&nbsp;<br \/><!-- End of Posted pictures --><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had used an image of a roman statue for a mixed media piece and so I had a few &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/roman-study\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}