{"id":42,"date":"2009-01-08T05:14:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T05:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-04-19T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:57:49","slug":"composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In order to become accustomed to writing about my art, I thought I would post about the work I have just started.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>I am going to use drypoint, an intaglio method that I haven\u2019t used before to create this print.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The initial sketch shows some of my thoughts about the composition.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>These are all separate details that I saw while cross country skiing on the Trans Canada trail over the holiday\u2019s and I have brought them together to create an image that for me evokes a sense of the cold and the interaction of the horse and the man in the vast field.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The next step will be to lay the composition out on the zinc plate and then to do the drawing.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>(Of course the layout will be a mirror image.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-45\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45\" title=\"horse_composition_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/horse_composition_sm.jpg\" alt=\"horse_composition_sm\" width=\"415\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/horse_composition_sm.jpg 500w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/horse_composition_sm-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to become accustomed to writing about my art, I thought I would post about the work I have just started. I am going to use drypoint, an intaglio method that I haven\u2019t used before to create this print. The initial sketch shows some of my thoughts about the composition. These are all separate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-observations","category-drawings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}