{"id":320,"date":"2007-09-28T23:08:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/we-are-neighbors-leaf-to-leaf\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T23:14:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T23:14:56","slug":"we-are-neighbors-leaf-to-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/we-are-neighbors-leaf-to-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Neighbors, Leaf to Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new love of mine is keeping a sketchbook. I have multiple ones going at once but I do have my favorites. Recently I adore the hardbound-type books. I usually use them to jot down quick compositions, color schemes, concept collages and other doodles. Sometimes I write little notes all over them til the picture gets covered in words!  Last weekend I started a few finished detailed sketches which is <i>very<\/i> addictive! I found some beautiful folk art flower imagery and decided that its leaves could support a whole colony of little cabins. It was only proper to have a girl support the whole living structure. The cluster of houses was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/pretty-blue-planter-and-art-project-in-progress\/\">this<\/a> little find (scroll down to see the white house) and the sketch as well from my moleskin last year. Here it is: <i>We Are Neighbors, Leaf to Leaf<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/070929_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nGraphite on creme paper with acrylic paint<\/p>\n<p>\nDetail:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/070929_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIt was so hard for me to leave her faceless (I do get caught up in drawing features) but I kept her simple. Her face is so tiny!<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5080439\">a print<\/a> can be found in my shop.<\/p>\n<p>\nI would like to expand this idea, but for now I have lots of little sketches (very loose and not print worthy!) to develop into paintings.<\/p>\n<p>\nTell me doodlers which type of sketchbook is your favorite? I would love to know, as I am always looking for new ones to try!<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new love of mine is keeping a sketchbook. I have multiple ones going at once but I do have my favorites. Recently I adore the hardbound-type books. I usually use them to jot down quick compositions, color schemes, concept collages and other doodles. Sometimes I write little notes all over them til the picture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/we-are-neighbors-leaf-to-leaf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Are Neighbors, Leaf to Leaf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etsy","category-sketch","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}