{"id":4021,"date":"2017-04-19T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2017-11-17T21:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T02:13:59","slug":"fountain-pen-sketching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/fountain-pen-sketching\/","title":{"rendered":"Fountain Pen Sketching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like sketching with pen and ink but taking a bottle of ink on location is a bit daunting so I&#8217;m exploring fountain pens. I&#8217;ve also been trying out a water brush and am working with the two together. First I drew some supplies on my desk &#8211; next some small bottles of nail polish I was about to throw out &#8211; (have decided I really only like natural colors &#8211; so out with the reds, the greens and the blues&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spray-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4033 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spray-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"art Supplies\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spray-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spray-1.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/polish-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4034\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/polish-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"sketches of jars\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/polish-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/polish-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/polish-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>Quick sketches of things on my table<\/p>\n<p>Tried it out on people sketching and buildings outside. All were very quick sketches &#8211; each perhaps five minutes at most (house a bit more&#8230;but just a bit).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bob.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4036 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bob-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Quick sketch\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bob-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bob.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4048\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/back-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"sketch of house\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/back-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/back-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/back.jpg 888w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nQuick sketch of Bob on phone and of the Back of my house<\/p>\n<p>This is very fun and I like not worrying about spilling ink but I&#8217;m going to look for a pen that gives even more of a thick\/thin line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I&#8217;m enjoying using fountain pens in my sketching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbooks","tag-fountain-pen-sketching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}