[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-viv-with-soap-bubbles":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/viv_bubbles-8297e918ed.jpg\"> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://vivianeschwarz.blogspot.com\">Viviane Schwarz\u003C/a> just showed me this painting technique using gum arabic, which was a great break from painting the big, daunting double-page spread I'm doing for a picture book. It didn't entirely work the way we thought it would, but it still looks kind of nice.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kings-Shopping-Walker-Stories/dp/184428090X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255450665&sr=8-1\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wjc_kingshop-997b7c2211.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAs for the drawing, the postman arrived today with a copy of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kings-Shopping-Walker-Stories/dp/184428090X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255449997&sr=8-1\">\u003Ci>The King's Shopping\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, and I did the drawing kind of in that style. It's a book I really wanted to see because it's illustrated by \u003Ca href=\"http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com/\">Warwick Johnson Cadwell\u003C/a> (who drew \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/241239.html\">the picture of Morris\u003C/a> last week). I'm going to read it after dinner tonight.","2009-10-13T16:00:00.000Z","viv-with-soap-bubbles",[],"viv with soap bubbles",1776628733411]