{"id":711,"date":"2021-02-02T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=711"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:47:39","slug":"picking-up-the-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/picking-up-the-brush\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Up the Brush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was recently inspired to start painting SCA scroll blanks again, like I did (gulp!) six years ago. My first recent efforts were these, traced from a photo I took of some Azalea blooms in Sharon’s garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Original images are all about 8.5″x5.5″ in size. These are all done with Sumi ink and watercolors on 9″x12″ hosho paper. I’m still in love with my “Kolinsky small<\/a>” brush from Kuretake<\/a>. Preserve the kolinsky<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third picture is probably the least “medieval Japanese” of all these, but I think it’s the most attractive. It is difficult to get good shading and depth in watercolor, and I’m just not good enough yet. The outline form is a little easier to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently inspired to start painting SCA scroll blanks again, like I did (gulp!) six years ago. My first recent efforts were these, traced from a photo I took of some Azalea blooms in Sharon’s garden. Original images are all about 8.5″x5.5″ in size. These are all done with Sumi ink and watercolors on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,417,419,3,5],"tags":[420,8,218,90,422,423],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illumination","category-japanese","category-painting","category-painting-japanese","category-projects","category-sca","tag-flowers","tag-japanese","tag-painting","tag-sca","tag-sumi","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}