{"id":19626,"date":"2024-10-09T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19626"},"modified":"2024-10-14T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:14:58","slug":"daily_3510_-_sketching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/10\/09\/daily_3510_-_sketching\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3510 &#8211; sketching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3510_sketch_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Struggling with a design for the next &#8220;black, white and a colour&#8221; exercise. For the first time, this doesn&#8217;t feel like effortless play. I don&#8217;t have designs just flowing out of my brain, through my fingers, straight to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make a design with five squares\/rectangles (<i>four-cornered shapes<\/i>), four circles, and three triangles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t fit! Especially the triangles. I could easily and effortlessly throw out sketch after sketch consisting of rectangles and circles. But then trying to find a place for the triangles&#8230; just didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>I could pair up rectangles with circles, both of them full and convex.<br \/>\nI could pair up rectangles with triangles, with angles everywhere.<br \/>\nI could pair up circles with triangles, playing with the contrast between sharp angles and round shapes.<\/p>\n<p>But with all three in the same design, it felt like they were working against each other.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3510_sketch_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the end I blew up the triangles and hid them in the background. Still not entirely satisfied, but I can continue tweaking things when I interpret this with fabric and yarn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3510_sketch_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3510_sketch_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling with a design for the next &#8220;black, white and a colour&#8221; exercise. For the first time, this doesn&#8217;t feel like effortless play. I don&#8217;t have designs just flowing out of my brain, through my fingers, straight to the paper. &#8220;Make a design with five squares\/rectangles (four-cornered shapes), four circles, and three triangles.&#8221; They don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,786,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-embroidery","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19629,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626\/revisions\/19629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}