{"id":295,"date":"2012-10-05T05:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2012-10-05T05:43:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:43:28","slug":"sharp-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Sharp edges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The way you hold the pencil and the position relative to the paper enables you to attain sharp edges &#8211; assuming, of course that you have a kept a sharp point on your pencil. That is of paramount importance.<\/p>\n<p>Hold the pencil so that you are using the point and it is leaning over the object you are painting, like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_296\" style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"size-full wp-image-296\" title=\"pencil001a\" src=\"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pencil001a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pencil001a.jpg 317w, https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pencil001a-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pencil001a-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holding the pencil to give sharper edges<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;rather than like this where it leans over the background.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_297\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297\" class=\"size-full wp-image-297\" title=\"pencil002\" src=\"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pencil002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pencil002.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pencil002-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pencil002-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holding the pencil like this will not give sharp edges.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way you hold the pencil and the position relative to the paper enables you to attain sharp edges &#8211; assuming, of course that you have a kept a sharp point on your pencil. That is of paramount importance. Hold the pencil so that you are using the point and it is leaning over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colored-pencils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}