{"id":3070,"date":"2014-09-03T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2014-09-03T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:55:34","slug":"the-elydoric-graminoid-adroitness-contrivance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/the-elydoric-graminoid-adroitness-contrivance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elydoric Graminoid Adroitness Contrivance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone wonders how some artists and illustrators paint grass so well. Okay, not everyone, a few folk do anyway. There&#8217;s even guides on how to paint grass (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/forum\/smf\/index.php?topic=1924.0\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>) for those of us who can&#8217;t figure it out (or even do it with a guide). But the truth which all these artist and illustrators who can realistically paint grass don&#8217;t tell you is they use a machine. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/portfolio\/gallery\/details.php?image_id=1498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Student-port-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Student-port\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Elydoric Graminoid Adroitness Contrivance was invented in 1983 by John Howe and he&#8217;s kept it hidden for years locked away in his attic only renting it out to a select few, luckily I discovered the truth hidden in a drawing by John which after some digital trickery revealed a few secrets \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just hopeful that in posting the truth about the Elydoric Graminoid Adroitness Contrivance I won&#8217;t encounter the wrath of the Illustrators and Artists Grass Painting Society, it does exist, look it up on Google (other search engines available).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/graeme_heathrobinson_grass1_700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/graeme_heathrobinson_grass1_700.jpg\" alt=\"A Contrivance\" width=\"700\" height=\"1681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/graeme_heathrobinson_grass1_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/graeme_heathrobinson_grass1_700-125x300.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/graeme_heathrobinson_grass1_700-426x1024.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Original illustration (c) John Howe<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone wonders how some artists and illustrators paint grass so well. Okay, not everyone, a few folk do anyway. There&#8217;s even guides on how to paint grass (link) for those of us who can&#8217;t figure it out (or even do it with a guide). But the truth which all these artist and illustrators who can realistically paint grass don&#8217;t tell you is they use a machine. The Elydoric Graminoid Adroitness Contrivance was invented in 1983 by John Howe and he&#8217;s kept it hidden for years locked away in his attic&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],"tags":[409,52,54],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","tag-grass","tag-illustration","tag-john-howe"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","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=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}