{"id":2136,"date":"2010-05-10T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2010-05-10T08:51:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:51:49","slug":"julia-randall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/julia-randall\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Randall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2139\" title=\"lick_line_1\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lick_line_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been somewhat of a stationery geek &#8212; when I was a kid I always liked colored pens, mechanical pencils, crayons, etc. Nothing freak-show or anything, I just liked collecting stationery and I used them judiciously to draw all the time back in the day before I discovered video games.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, where I&#8217;m going with this, is that I find it fascinating whenever I see artists who could use simple things like wax crayons or colored pencils to do amazing works of art. I somehow find that far superior in skill then what I could do with a digital camera along with Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>Take this work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baileygallery.com\/artists_02.cfm?fid=108\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Randall<\/a> for instance. That&#8217;s all done with colored pencil? That&#8217;s pretty amazing. Imagine the mouth cramp the model had sitting there all day with a spit bubble (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayandtomorrow.net\/2010\/05\/06\/lick-line\/\" target=\"_blank\">Today and Tomorrow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been somewhat of a stationery geek &#8212; when I was a kid I always liked colored pens, mechanical pencils, crayons, etc. Nothing freak-show or anything, I just liked collecting stationery and I used them judiciously to draw all the time back in the day before I discovered video games. Anyway, where I&#8217;m going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[300,299],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","tag-lips","tag-pencil-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}