{"id":6,"date":"2007-10-12T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T17:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2007-10-12T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T17:53:40","slug":"for-the-sake-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"for the sake of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing for the sake of writing, for the sake of habit, not particularly knowing what I want to say.  Same things as the last post&#8230;the need for patience.   I spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks drawing the basic objects&#8211;coffee cups, my thumbs, and being unhappy with the results.  Some of the most productive time I spent was, again, drawing parallel lines, this time with pencil, trying to lay down a consistent, light shade.<\/p>\n<p>I feel about art the way I remember feeling about writing as a high school student, a bit frantic, and full of potential:  What IS writing?  What are its parts? How do you do this?&#8211;write in such a way that satisfies readers and keep the eyes on the page?  I&#8217;ve been making little drawings for the web for 9 years now and in the last 2 made some ventures into 3 space (paintings, papier-mach\u00c3\u00a9, collages), I finally feel the need (and the courage) to pursue basic skills.  <\/p>\n<p>I just signed up for one class and two workshops for the fall at the UC Berkeley ASUC Art Studio:<\/p>\n<p>Introduction to Portrait Drawing<br \/>\nJewelry Workshop: Basic Wire Work<br \/>\nMat Cutting Workshop<\/p>\n<p>On a different note, here&#8217;s a recent photo from a trip to the Botanical Garden in the parks near Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/niagaraleaf.jpg' title='Leaf'><img src='https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/niagaraleaf.jpg' alt='Leaf' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing for the sake of writing, for the sake of habit, not particularly knowing what I want to say. Same things as the last post&#8230;the need for patience. I spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks drawing the basic objects&#8211;coffee cups, my thumbs, and being unhappy with the results. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=6\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">for the sake of<\/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-6","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\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}