{"id":686,"date":"2008-09-16T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=686"},"modified":"2008-09-16T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:43:16","slug":"gigantorrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/gigantorrific\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantorrific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallerynucleus.com\/detail\/6095\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-685\" title=\"unicornmotorwaymonster\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unicornmotorwaymonster-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unicornmotorwaymonster-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/unicornmotorwaymonster.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This cool watercolor is actually quite good timing. I have one student who&#8217;s working on an illustration where there&#8217;s a gigantic chocolate monster chasing after some runaway fruit.\u00a0 I know, a little bizarre subject matter but it&#8217;s fun for the class.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway we were talking yesterday about how this creature could be made to look <em>ginormous<\/em>.\u00a0 (My new created word of the day)\u00a0 I suggested he try to use scale to show relative sizes of the objects&#8230;put his monster next to tiny trees and stuff so that the viewer can picture how huge it is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Poof!<\/em> Here&#8217;s a good example right here.\u00a0 This beautiful watercolor is by an artist named <a href=\"http:\/\/gallerynucleus.com\/detail\/6095\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Appelhans<\/a>.\u00a0 Very niiice.\u00a0 I tried watercolor once in school and I had a hard time using that media. Had I known I could have turned my water blotch into a cool monster interpretation like this I could have made something of myself.<\/p>\n<p>via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monster-munch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monster-Munch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cool watercolor is actually quite good timing. I have one student who&#8217;s working on an illustration where there&#8217;s a gigantic chocolate monster chasing after some runaway fruit.\u00a0 I know, a little bizarre subject matter but it&#8217;s fun for the class. Anyway we were talking yesterday about how this creature could be made to look [&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],"tags":[81,82],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-monster","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}