[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-that-old-chestnut":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Keep an eye on the ground as you walk through Greenwich Park right now, lest you tred on one of these little ankle-biters. Cute but totally vicious. (Thanks to \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ADsaxist/status/391892949157826560\">Alison Diamond on Twitter\u003C/a> for suggesting I add eyes.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chestnut_beastie_greenwich_zps1e30adc1-f52e512f27.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI haven't drawn trees for awhile now, and I've sort of forgotten how. It's like practicing a musical instrument, I get rusty very quickly if I don't do it. I tried out a couple ways of drawing, with brush pen and pencil:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/greenwich_trees_20oct13_zps5e1f210d-d15e8aa6bb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's my artist friend \u003Ca href=\"http://www.edwardsmith-sculptor.com/\">Eddie Smith\u003C/a>'s drawing! It was fun having Ed and his daughter there with me. Ed has a drawing displayed right now in the \u003Ca href=\"http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-drawing-prize-2013\">Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition\u003C/a>, which is open in their gallery on Union Street (near London Bridge station) until \u003Cb>27 Oct\u003C/b>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/eddie_smith_tree_greenwich_zps9ca99685-21750d70bc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHis daughter drew a duck.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ed_d_greenwich_zps1544c4a1-f5fc64edc1.jpg\">","2013-10-20T14:31:00.000Z","that-old-chestnut",[],"that old chestnut",1776628725737]