{"id":28,"date":"2006-07-23T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-01-27T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T05:56:04","slug":"drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3438\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 232px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charcoal2006.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3438 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charcoal2006-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"charcoal drawing of foot and ice on sidewalk\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charcoal2006-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charcoal2006-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charcoal2006.jpg 927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">CHARCOAL SIDEWALK<br \/> 2006<br \/> Charcoal on paper<br \/> 22&#215;30<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was not looking forward to starting a required drawing class: it triggered memories of my childhood art class experiences, where the overzealous local artists would actually erase my work and draw in the shapes for me. I have never found drawing still life arrangements of driftwood, bottles, and bike helmets very inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>My first experience using charcoal was a bit daunting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it&#8217;s dusty \u00e2\u20ac\u201c black handprints now adorn the couch. But after the first day of working on the drawing pictured here, I actually started to enjoy the process. I created a mid-tone surface by covering the page in natural charcoal, and then used an eraser or more charcoal to create lighter and darker values. I was impressed by the way the gray surface enabled me to make a large drawing fairly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on a regular forced me to become more observant. Without the seduction of colour, I could focus on composition, which is essential to progressing the level of my paintings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was not looking forward to starting a required drawing class: it triggered memories of my childhood art class experiences, where the overzealous local artists would actually erase my work and draw in the shapes for me. I have never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=28\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[99,367,388],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-drawing","tag-emily-carr-university-of-art-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}