https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/about-the-met\/Collection-Areas\/drawings-and-prints\/materials-and-techniques\/drawing\/watercolor<\/a><\/p>\nI feel both skilled and unskilled, and with renewed desire to practice & play with both.<\/p>\n
(Once I quit lying on the couch and resting my eyes. I’m letting the left one heal up from its cataract surgery\/lens replacement. They’re SUPPOSED to be closed but the world is too interesting!)<\/p>\n
(New eyeglass prescription next month, so near work like drawing & painting is more tiring right now. Maybe I should go get some reading glasses.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two things I read and enjoyed today: On Graphite: https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/about-the-met\/Collection-Areas\/drawings-and-prints\/materials-and-techniques\/drawing\/graphite On Watercolor: https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/about-the-met\/Collection-Areas\/drawings-and-prints\/materials-and-techniques\/drawing\/watercolor I feel both skilled and unskilled, and with renewed desire to practice & play with both. (Once I quit lying on the couch and resting my eyes. I’m letting the left one heal up from its cataract… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-sD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1025,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/july-art-practice-zoolyartchallenge-1-bat-eared-fox\/","url_meta":{"origin":1775,"position":0},"title":"July art practice \/\/ #ZoolyArtChallenge (1. 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