{"id":1735,"date":"2010-08-30T10:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2011-02-22T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T23:32:20","slug":"tailings-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Tailings pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an enormous tailing pond at the Highland Valley Copper\u00a0 mine\u00a0 and I want to try to create an image that gives a sense of the scale.\u00a0 At this point I&#8217;m just exploring the relationship of the elements: the sky, mountains, water and the tailings.\u00a0 I did a small watercolour sketch to start but I think I will need to work some more and decide if it would work better as a print or a painting.\u00a0 The sketch itself doesn&#8217;t really convey the scale or clearly define the tailings but that is the point of working through these issues before embarking on a larger piece.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-1736\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Copper-02854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1736\" title=\"Copper-02854\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Copper-02854.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Copper-02854.jpg 500w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Copper-02854-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an enormous tailing pond at the Highland Valley Copper\u00a0 mine\u00a0 and I want to try to create an image that gives a sense of the scale.\u00a0 At this point I&#8217;m just exploring the relationship of the elements: the sky, mountains, water and the tailings.\u00a0 I did a small watercolour sketch to start but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[58,365,85],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-copper","tag-painting","tag-sketch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}