{"id":263,"date":"2013-09-02T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T00:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=263"},"modified":"2013-12-06T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T01:37:10","slug":"clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Clay\"
\nClay<\/cite><\/a><\/div>\n

For Sketchfest #40<\/a>, prompt "These Troll Hands<\/a>".<\/p>\n

Soft graphite and watercolor on some inexpensive cold press or other, 6.5 x 8.5 inches. I really am starting to use\/need bigger paper… That’s one of the scary things for me (too big too free too loose!) so good to see me pushing edges. I think I should use some opaque color to layer clay over his\/her fingers but haven’t\/not sure quite how…<\/p>\n

Art copyright © 2013 Kirsten Talmage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clay For Sketchfest #40, prompt "These Troll Hands". Soft graphite and watercolor on some inexpensive cold press or other, 6.5 x 8.5 inches. I really am starting to use\/need bigger paper… That’s one of the scary things for me (too big too free too loose!) so good to see me… <\/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":[182,42,24,181,99,25,180,43],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-sketches","tag-clay","tag-mixed-media","tag-pencil","tag-pottery","tag-sketch","tag-sketchfest","tag-troll","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sakBUO-clay","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/bonsai-spirit\/","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":0},"title":"Bonsai Spirit","author":"Kir","date":"16 September 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Bonsai SpiritFor Sketchfest #40, prompt \"Bonsai Dryad\".Watercolor on Arches cold press. 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