{"id":321,"date":"2009-01-17T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2009-01-17T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T17:06:00","slug":"take-a-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/take-a-closer-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a closer look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Posted pictures --><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/couchart\/pic\/0035sxr1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"350\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/couchart\/pic\/0035sxr1\/s640x480\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Posted pictures -->I did another ATC\/ACEO of my friend Matt&nbsp;using the same photo reference as in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/couchart\/pic\/0035r8yg\/g393\">last piece<\/a> of him I did. This time I went in a little closer and, although I used colored pencils again, this time I worked on a white background of watercolor paper rather than the black drawing paper.&nbsp; I am still getting familiar with the colored pencils. I read about using odorless mineral spirits with the colored pencils to create some washes so I have been trying to incorporate that a little. It is causing me to lean more into my painting technique, which always feels different to me than drawing, but is equally pleasurable.<\/p>\n<p>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlcoarts.com\/\">ATC exhibition<\/a> coming up in April in New Jersey, for which I may submit this card as one of my entries. I am not sure yet, but I am trying to get a few pieces done before the mid March mail date and then see if I have anything that I feel like submitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did another ATC\/ACEO of my friend Matt&nbsp;using the same photo reference as in the last piece of him I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/take-a-closer-look\/\">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-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashazart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}