{"id":156,"date":"2012-10-13T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=156"},"modified":"2012-10-13T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:00:03","slug":"critters-lugging-stuff-around-4-ill-gotten-gains-raccoon-and-probable-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/critters-lugging-stuff-around-4-ill-gotten-gains-raccoon-and-probable-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"Critters Lugging Stuff Around 4: Ill-gotten Gains? (Raccoon and Probable Pearls)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ill-gotten Gains?<\/a><\/div>\n

"Sure hope these are real pearls. Why did I take the ornament? Oh well! Almost there!"<\/em><\/p>\n

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Colored pencil on mat board. I'm starting to get the hang of this!<\/p>\n

(Although still not so much the scanning: despite attempting to adjust scan colors with Photoshop, the original is a more lively sage surface. I suppose the LCD computer screen and multiple yellow-tinted curly fluorescent bulbs aren't helping…)<\/p>\n

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Ill-gotten Gains? "Sure hope these are real pearls. Why did I take the ornament? Oh well! Almost there!" Colored pencil on mat board. I'm starting to get the hang of this! (Although still not so much the scanning: despite attempting to adjust scan colors with Photoshop, the original is a… <\/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":[29,20,84,78,76,75,83,80,81,77,82,79],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-colored-pencil","tag-critters","tag-escape","tag-ornament","tag-pearl","tag-raccoon","tag-run","tag-steal","tag-stolen","tag-string-of-pearls","tag-theft","tag-thief"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-2w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/wren-voyage\/","url_meta":{"origin":156,"position":0},"title":"“Wren Voyage”","author":"Kir","date":"23 March 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Another colored pencil on mat board, 6cm x 6cm.Part of the once-hypothetical \"Critters Lugging Stuff Around\" series.Possibly not quite done, now I see it larger onscreen after the scan. 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