{"id":177,"date":"2013-01-25T20:02:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T01:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=177"},"modified":"2013-03-02T20:11:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T01:11:43","slug":"knighting-the-wood-duck-draft-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/knighting-the-wood-duck-draft-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Knighting the Wood Duck (draft sketch)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nKnighting the Wood Duck<\/a><\/div>\n

For Sketchfest #32: Prompt: Swamp “mer”maid from Anke Wehner<\/a><\/p>\n

Crayola watercolor on smooth Canson sketchpaper. I know, I know! Thus the sketch! part. \ud83d\ude42 … oh, and then photographed under bad fluorescent lighting and minimally adjusted in Photoshop. Could that be any worse?? Muses, I tell ya.<\/p>\n

I hope I can find time to do this on some real water color paper with somewhat better paints. It’s about 6 x 6.5 inches I think. References are Vermont swamps and typical inhabitants. More or less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knighting the Wood Duck For Sketchfest #32: Prompt: Swamp “mer”maid from Anke Wehner Crayola watercolor on smooth Canson sketchpaper. I know, I know! Thus the sketch! part. \ud83d\ude42 … oh, and then photographed under bad fluorescent lighting and minimally adjusted in Photoshop. Could that be any worse?? Muses, I tell… <\/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":[8,94],"tags":[28,95,25,96,43],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-sketches","tag-birds","tag-mermaid","tag-sketchfest","tag-swamp","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-2R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":265,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/transform\/","url_meta":{"origin":177,"position":0},"title":"Transform","author":"Kir","date":"9 September 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"TransformFor Sketchfest #40, prompt \"Owl Princess\".This isn't what I expected either. 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