{"id":493,"date":"2018-04-30T20:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T00:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=493"},"modified":"2018-05-12T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T16:42:42","slug":"sketchbook-its-a-kite-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-its-a-kite-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ It&#8217;s a Kite Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"492\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-its-a-kite-day\/img_8824-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?fit=1912%2C1912&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1912,1912\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_8824.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?fit=770%2C770&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-492 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?resize=770%2C770&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?resize=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1 175w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?w=1912&amp;ssl=1 1912w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?w=1540&amp;ssl=1 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually, I don&#8217;t know if it is a kite day <em>today<\/em> when you read this and it was too chilly when I sketched this but hey, kites are awesome and fun, so it maybe <em>should<\/em> be a kite day and why are you inside, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>This is what my sketches often look like for the Tiny Tin series. I&#8217;m so pleased so far! I&#8217;ve sketched up through the 40s of a goal of about 52 and a few sketches. About half maybe have ink lines, and if you are one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?c=1490941&amp;rid=2314285\">Coloring Goodness<\/a> patrons, you get to see some of these and color them!<\/p>\n<p>Did I already tell you what I&#8217;ll be doing with all these sketches when they&#8217;re done? If not, what are your guesses? (Or&#8230;what would you <em>like<\/em> me to do with them?)<\/p>\n<p>Also, I feel <em>really<\/em> pleased about how this Tiny Tin Series project is going. My nebulous &#8220;theme&#8221; for 2018 is &#8220;consistent, persistent, complete&#8221; \u2014 I&#8217;m really working on some stick-to-it-iveness personal habits, primarily with art. That&#8217;s a challenge by itself, but it&#8217;s also <em>I hope <\/em>giving me some training to develop those habits\/traits for other aspects in life. (I keep thinking, &#8220;what, still, at my age?&#8221; but true enough, yes, still, at my age. Growth is available whenever you can get to it, I guess.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Metasilk\/posts?tag=dragon\">dragon, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Metasilk\/posts?tag=kite\">kite, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Metasilk\/posts?tag=sketchbook\">sketchbook, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Metasilk\/posts?tag=tiny%20tin%20series\">tiny tin series, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Metasilk\/posts?tag=windy\">windy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I don&#8217;t know if it is a kite day today when you read this and it was too chilly when I sketched this but hey, kites are awesome and fun, so it maybe should be a kite day and why are you inside, anyway? This is what my sketches&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"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":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":[8,94,9],"tags":[44,99],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-sketches","category-wip","tag-dragon","tag-sketch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_8824.jpg?fit=1912%2C1912&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-7X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1329,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-purrmaid-goes-fishing\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":0},"title":"sketchbook \/\/ purrmaid goes fishing","author":"Kir","date":"19 May 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope they catch just what they want: a nap, a boot, a fish. 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They are about 3\" x 4\" and sketched in pencil. They are for sale as sketches.\u00a0I'm thinking about creating two new tiers (in honor of ONE YEAR ON PATREON YAY!) and\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":505,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/tiny-mermaid\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":2},"title":"Tiny Mermaid","author":"Kir","date":"2 May 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello, #mermay! My Instagram feed is full of beautiful art today\u2014so wonderful! This is a bit of one of the #tinytinseries of ink drawings* I\u2019m doing. #mermay2018 (This was first posted on my Patreon with the tags ink drawing, mermaid, mermay, tiny tin series) * Did I say this already?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"swirl-maid by Kir Talmage","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/swirlmaid-IG-crop-from-photo.png?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/swirlmaid-IG-crop-from-photo.png?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/swirlmaid-IG-crop-from-photo.png?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/swirlmaid-IG-crop-from-photo.png?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":894,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-for-tiny-tin-series-44-2-dragon-and-mouse\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":3},"title":"Sketchbook for Tiny Tin series \/\/ #44.2 Dragon and mouse","author":"Kir","date":"21 August 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Ooof, glare on the pencil in the iThing photo! Plus the original is only about 2.5\" x 3.5\" so it's looks bizzarely huge on my laptop screen as I post it...\u00a0It'll be one of the Tiny Tin drawings; it's number 44.2 because I didn't like the one I first sketched\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":1250,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-more-wee-beasties\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":4},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ more wee beasties","author":"Kir","date":"16 July 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I have some tiny new watercolor paper pad\u2014Stonehenge hot & cold press from Legion Paper\u2014new to try! I didn\u2019t feel like drawing right on them, so I have been making tiny sketches to work out some ideas. You probably know most of these critters; in case not, the one with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sketches&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sketches","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/sketches\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/69dd98f52f69f551edaa8571fc774d53.jpg?fit=820%2C1065&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/69dd98f52f69f551edaa8571fc774d53.jpg?fit=820%2C1065&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/69dd98f52f69f551edaa8571fc774d53.jpg?fit=820%2C1065&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/69dd98f52f69f551edaa8571fc774d53.jpg?fit=820%2C1065&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1022,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-junicorn\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":5},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ #Junicorn","author":"Kir","date":"19 June 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Just another forest beastie, done for June's EMG sketchfest. 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