{"id":2294,"date":"2012-08-08T16:51:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2012-08-08T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:51:55","slug":"if-you-go-down-to-the-woods-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/if-you-go-down-to-the-woods-today\/","title":{"rendered":"If you go down to the woods today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon was the first really dry day with reasonable light we&#8217;d had for ages, so I put the camera and a sketchbook in my bag then went for a wander in the woods. I spent quite some time photographing leaves to use as reference for paintings\/drawings then started sketching. From the (far too many) photographs which I took down in the woods it wasn&#8217;t a leaf which I liked on the screen back at home, it was one of a patch of light on a mossy branch, almost a piece of life in miniature \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8_8_12_02_700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2287\" title=\"Life in Miniature\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8_8_12_02_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8_8_12_02_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8_8_12_02_700-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Standing there sketching leaves I noticed how the shadow of leaves was playing across the sketchbook, it was an effect I quite liked&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8_8_12_sketch_700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2286\" title=\"Sketching\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8_8_12_sketch_700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8_8_12_sketch_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8_8_12_sketch_700-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon was the first really dry day with reasonable light we&#8217;d had for ages, so I put the camera and a sketchbook in my bag then went for a wander in the woods. I spent quite some time photographing leaves to use as reference for paintings\/drawings then started sketching. From the (far too many) photographs which I took down in the woods it wasn&#8217;t a leaf which I liked on the screen back at home, it was one of a patch of light on a mossy branch, almost a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[243,72,24],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","category-photography","tag-leaves","tag-sketch","tag-wood"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}