{"id":455,"date":"2009-01-12T10:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T10:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/pondside\/"},"modified":"2009-01-14T02:09:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T02:09:43","slug":"pondside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/pondside\/","title":{"rendered":"pondside and sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the snow gently fell all weekend long I visited one of my favorite spots&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nSaturday morning I spent some time by a pond in my favorite meadow.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090110_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nI often marvel at these two swans, they are too beautiful for words and always in the water! With the ice and the snow falling it was quite serene. <\/p>\n<p>\nStaying in was nice! I worked all weekend on my art, especially on a painting inspired by the above swans (and ships at sea too!). Here&#8217;s a little peek at the initial sketch in my giant sketchbook:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090110_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nOther musings, pondside:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090110_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nWriting on ice.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090110_4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nDo you what bird builds a nest so low over water? (the white you see in the background is the frozen-over pond.) I&#8217;d love to know the name of the bird!<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd I am so eager to work more on my paintings this afternoon! Have a beautiful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the snow gently fell all weekend long I visited one of my favorite spots&#8230; Saturday morning I spent some time by a pond in my favorite meadow. I often marvel at these two swans, they are too beautiful for words and always in the water! With the ice and the snow falling it was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/pondside\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;pondside and sketches&#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":[9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketch","category-wanderings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}