{"id":36240,"date":"2021-07-13T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36240"},"modified":"2021-07-13T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:33:18","slug":"coming-soon-to-my-sketchbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/07\/13\/coming-soon-to-my-sketchbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to My Sketchbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Art<\/a>This is my latest acquisition. It is a cake of water soluble graphite that I will be using in conjunction with standard graphite and other water soluble pencils. The results are like ink washes, and I’ve been having a blast building up tones on my drawings.<\/p>\n

I just got this so stay tuned to see what I come up with. It’s a shame to spoil the beautiful logo molded into the graphite disk, but spoil it I shall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my latest acquisition. It is a cake of water soluble graphite that I will be using in conjunction with standard graphite and other water soluble pencils. The results are like ink washes, and I’ve been having a blast … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4953,49],"tags":[5111,5110,5112],"class_list":["post-36240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-graphite","tag-viarco","tag-water-soluble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9qw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38187,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/07\/13\/the-other-half\/","url_meta":{"origin":36240,"position":0},"title":"The Other Half","author":"Joe","date":"July 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in 2017, I had what I thought was a pretty good idea for replicating the size and shape of my beloved Sketchbook from Heaven by cleaving a 9-inch by 12-inch drawing pad into two 9-inch by 6-inch pads. 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