[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-early-morning-in-greenwich-park":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today's tree drawing was a bit trickier than \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/643141.html\">yesterday's picture\u003C/a>. I thought I'd zoom in closer so I could draw the bark in more detail. But that didn't simplify things, it actually made it more complicated. That bark has SO MUCH detail.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/greenwich_11jun14_2_zpsdbe817e4-5d6f67870a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOn my first attempt, I tried that thing I did last time with the coloured markers, and when I went in with the black lines, I actually got lost. Each time I'd look up, I couldn't remember where in the complicated pattern I'd left off, and my pen was starting to scrabble about haphazardly. It didn't help that I was sitting on a slope looking uphill, that the sun kept dazzling me in the face, and that a fat snorty bull terrier named Pixie came and stuck her drooling mouth over my coffee cup. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/greenwich_11jun14_1_zps1886c5f8-4790a6536e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSo I ditched that picture, and started over, trying to draw a bit less, and doing it just in black ink. The unfinished-looking result wasn't too bad, but I wish I could do a better job of catching that cool diamond pattern. Hmm, next time.\\r\n\\r\nOh, if you're a grown-up, you might like to read the \u003Ca href=\"http://english.bouletcorp.com/2012/02/01/darkness/\">fabulous comic strip\u003C/a> about roommates and odd relationships by \u003Cb>Boulet\u003C/b> called \u003Ci>Darkness\u003C/i>. (Thanks for tipping me off to it, Woodrow Phoenix!)\\r\n\\r\nAlso, tickets for my \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i> Edinburgh Book Festival event with my co-author Philip Reeve\u003C/b> have just \u003Ca href=\"https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/sarah-mcintyre-philip-reeve-cakes-in-space\">gone live on the website\u003C/a>! Bizarrely, instead of using a photo of both of us on the website, they've used an old art college photo of just me, from 2007. (So I have drawn a more realistic photo.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/sarah-mcintyre-philip-reeve-cakes-in-space\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/EdBookFest14_cakes_zps34ef006d-f797a8d588.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n...I wonder if we should have a chorus line.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chorus_line_zpsa3f31f46-8401b9477f.gif\">","2014-06-11T22:07:00.000Z","early-morning-in-greenwich-park",[],"early morning in greenwich park",1776628726506]