{"id":144,"date":"2009-01-15T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T03:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-01-15T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T03:23:40","slug":"drawing-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Drawing fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freshly returned to the Bay Area from Pittsburgh, I&#8217;m feeling visually inspired&#8211;both by my longtime muse, who goes by the name of Bart, and by the whimsically urban Laney College campus, where I&#8217;m taking a portrait drawing course. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of fast sketching and am feeling pretty pleased with it. \u00c2\u00a0Here are some recent drawings. \u00c2\u00a0As you can see, I&#8217;ve dolled them up, to one degree or another, in photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are two of my favorites from BART.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2009bart1 by LauraElaine, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lauraelaine\/3199910183\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3458\/3199910183_654b16cbeb_m.jpg\" alt=\"2009bart1\" width=\"240\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2009bart2 by LauraElaine, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lauraelaine\/3199941889\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3428\/3199941889_8dcc29149b.jpg\" alt=\"2009bart2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here are two from Laney College, where I sat in bleachers overlooking the swimming pool.  The sky was full of helicopters in anticipation of further protest over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oakland-bart-shooting\/ci_11452094\/\">killing of Oscar Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lauraelaine\/3200735172\/\" title=\"laney1 by LauraElaine, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3104\/3200735172_bdd2b79190.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"445\" alt=\"laney1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lauraelaine\/3199910181\/\" title=\"helicopters by LauraElaine, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3393\/3199910181_0623359c4a_o.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"576\" alt=\"helicopters\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshly returned to the Bay Area from Pittsburgh, I&#8217;m feeling visually inspired&#8211;both by my longtime muse, who goes by the name of Bart, and by the whimsically urban Laney College campus, where I&#8217;m taking a portrait drawing course. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of fast sketching and am feeling pretty pleased with it. \u00c2\u00a0Here are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drawing fast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}