{"id":129,"date":"2012-08-17T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=129"},"modified":"2012-08-17T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:25:32","slug":"coffee-coffee-everywhere-and-not-a-drop-to-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coffee-coffee-everywhere-and-not-a-drop-to-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee, coffee, everywhere and not a drop to drink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coffee, Coffee, Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink<\/cite><\/a><\/div>\n

I did another sketch for Sketchfest<\/a>. Didn't post it because I wanted to turn it into finish work (well, it was also excessively late at night…). But lo! I did!<\/p>\n

I sketched in pencil and micron pen, scanned that, printed it on watercolor paper, and painted it. That was fun! But me tell you, getting a digital file of this was a BEAR. This is the whole thing, but prints might be cropped versions. Yes prints, but not yet, I have some stuff to do right now.<\/p>\n

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Coffee, Coffee, Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink I did another sketch for Sketchfest. Didn't post it because I wanted to turn it into finish work (well, it was also excessively late at night…). But lo! I did! I sketched in pencil and micron pen, scanned that, printed it… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[39,38,42,41,25,40,30,31,43],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-boat","tag-coffee","tag-mixed-media","tag-mug","tag-sketchfest","tag-spoon","tag-travel","tag-voyage","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-25","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":207,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/origami-fairy-for-sketchfest\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":0},"title":"Origami Fairy (for Sketchfest)","author":"Kir","date":"15 June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Origami Fairy (sketch) Next time, I'm pulling out that old origami photo calendar with stuff in it by Robert Lang. 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