{"id":995,"date":"2020-03-09T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-owl-for-a-bookcrossing-label\/"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T18:00:03","slug":"sketchbook-owl-for-a-bookcrossing-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-owl-for-a-bookcrossing-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ Owl for a Bookcrossing label?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Birds of Vermont Museum<\/a> has recently installed a Little Free Library<\/a>. I thought it would be fun to make an illustration that we could use on a Bookcrossing<\/a> label as well. \u00a0Of course, a spectacled owl<\/a> would be better, but those aren’t native to Vermont.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since so far, I’ve only sketched this, we’re right now using my ink drawing “Bob’s Hat” (from 2014) for this.<\/p>\n

Okay, true, a Little Free Library and Bookcrossing aren’t the same thing! But I figure cross-posting\/cross-pollination of these great and lovely things (birds and books, hello) is a happiness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, must find time to paint…\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Birds of Vermont Museum has recently installed a Little Free Library. I thought it would be fun to make an illustration that we could use on a Bookcrossing label as well. \u00a0Of course, a spectacled owl would be better, but those aren’t native to Vermont.\u00a0 Since so far, I’ve… <\/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-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-g3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1658,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/superb-owls\/","url_meta":{"origin":995,"position":0},"title":"Superb Owls","author":"Kir","date":"11 February 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Wee fuzzy things","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5473-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1199&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5473-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1199&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5473-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1199&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5473-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1199&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_5473-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1199&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":956,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/another-bird-stamp\/","url_meta":{"origin":995,"position":1},"title":"Another bird stamp","author":"Kir","date":"27 May 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This owl came together really quickly. 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