{"id":90,"date":"2012-03-19T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T03:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=90"},"modified":"2023-07-10T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:58:40","slug":"mouse-with-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/mouse-with-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mouse with Flowers”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Drawing

‘Mouse with Flowers’ \u00a92012 Kirsten Talmage<\/p><\/div>\n

Mom had some scraps of mat board she was getting rid of, so I thought I’d try my hand at a technique I’ve seen Jessica Douglas [link]<\/a> do some time ago. (Go see her very fabulous art, even though there’s nothing quite like this in her gallery right now.)<\/p>\n

So. Colored pencil on mat board.<\/p>\n

Very fun! Because of the darkness of the mat, and because of the thickness\/strength of the board, I had to push my nervousness with applying color with a heavier hand. Very good for me!<\/p>\n

I don’t have a mat cutter, so the other experiment was trimming away some of the red with an X-acto knife. Feh. I like it OK in the original (better than a smooth edge), but not in the digital versions, go figure.<\/p>\n

Also, there’s clearly some dust on my scanner. Whoops. Nor am I at all sure that you are seeing the colors I am, and on my laptop’s LCD screen, the colors are darker and slightly more muted than in the original.<\/p>\n

The original is about 6cm by 6 cm. Yeah, tiny! And that’s why this image is so small\u2014sure, I scanned it at 600dpi (the scanner whined about 1200, silly thing, though that was before I rebooted it), so I could print it bigger, but … I probably shouldn’t! (Might anyway…)<\/p>\n

Original SOLD at Art on Main’s 2012 Community Art Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mom had some scraps of mat board she was getting rid of, so I thought I’d try my hand at a technique I’ve seen Jessica Douglas [link] do some time ago. (Go see her very fabulous art, even though there’s nothing quite like this in her gallery right now.) So.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1283,"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":[8,11,10],"tags":[29,20,6,15,14,16],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-kids","category-shows","tag-colored-pencil","tag-critters","tag-experimental","tag-flowers","tag-mouse","tag-other-artists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-1s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/wren-voyage\/","url_meta":{"origin":90,"position":0},"title":"“Wren Voyage”","author":"Kir","date":"23 March 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Another colored pencil on mat board, 6cm x 6cm.Part of the once-hypothetical \"Critters Lugging Stuff Around\" series.Possibly not quite done, now I see it larger onscreen after the scan. 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