{"id":1784,"date":"2024-05-26T01:15:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-green-merfolk\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T01:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T05:15:45","slug":"sketchbook-green-merfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-green-merfolk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ green merfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty sure I&#8217;ve been influenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/talesfantastic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manelle Oliphant<\/a> and her wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/talesfantastic.com\/portfolio\/mermendium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mermendium<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>On my end, this is just messing around as I have been this month. Nothing like trying to make good art; just trying to do <em>something<\/em> and play a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The left eye is recovering well from the cataract surgery, which is great. Everything else in life is pretty full and time-eating. <\/p>\n<p>I have a bit of travel coming up and I am absolutely looking forward to it. I&#8217;m trying to make myself not bring any work&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-media-id=\"311277464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/c2c16aa898269b24590f5691a5840bfe.jpg?fit=820%2C820&amp;ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty sure I&#8217;ve been influenced by Manelle Oliphant and her wonderful Mermendium. On my end, this is just messing around as I have been this month. Nothing like trying to make good art; just trying to do something and play a bit. The left eye is recovering well from the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783,"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-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-sM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":616,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-scribbly-idea-for-an-art-show-submission\/","url_meta":{"origin":1784,"position":0},"title":"Sketchbook: scribbly idea for an art show submission","author":"Kir","date":"22 February 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Museum where I work has an annual art show. This year\u2019s theme is Common Grounds, in honor of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. I sometimes make art to submit to this show if I feel moved and have time. 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I used some older (probably pretty familiar to you now) vivid drawings and paintings\u2014I've been doing so much linework and black and white work that I didn't have new dragons for this yet.\u00a0I used Silhouette temporary tattoo paper, an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":890,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-smaugust-3-failure-to-launch\/","url_meta":{"origin":1784,"position":5},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ Smaugust 3: Failure to launch","author":"Kir","date":"12 August 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Just another scribbly ink pen sketch for Smaugust! One of the prompts for August 3 was \"Dragon Rider\" (I got this from Bubbles on instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BlizpCXFZf8\/?tagged=smaugust2018 ).As you can see, I'm not really doing this art challenge daily, nor much in order. 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