{"id":2617,"date":"2018-05-15T07:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:47:32","slug":"a-little-work-play-in-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/a-little-work-play-in-the-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"A little work\/play in the studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadlines are looming and inspiration is elusive. I tidy my studio, clear out some old practice sheets .. and make some more. It&#8217;s a never ending cycle.<\/p>\n<p>To entice the muse, I sit down to play a little. I&#8217;m thinking of another little book <span style=\"font-size: 9px;\">(and just now remembering I&#8217;ve never posted the last little book)<\/span>, so I experiment with a number inks\/paints and a #6 Mitchell nib. The lettering is 1.5 mm x-height.<a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2618\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/a-little-work-play-in-the-studio\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1062\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Experiments with small lettering&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids-771x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2618\" style=\"border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Experiments with small lettering\" width=\"525\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180512-tiny-writing-with-various-fluids.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180514-brush-play.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2619\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/a-little-work-play-in-the-studio\/20180514-brush-play\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180514-brush-play.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,489\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20180514-brush-play\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180514-brush-play.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2619\" style=\"border: thin solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180514-brush-play-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180514-brush-play-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180514-brush-play-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180514-brush-play.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In anticipation of the upcoming conference, and the class that will be taught by Carl Rohrs, I get out a brush and do &#8230; something. It&#8217;s not much, but it reminds me what a pointed brush feels like in the hand. I feel some of the kinetic learning of a recent Spencerian workshop creeping in. That&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadlines are looming and inspiration is elusive. I tidy my studio, clear out some old practice sheets .. and make some more. It&#8217;s a never ending cycle. To entice the muse, I sit down to play a little. I&#8217;m thinking of another little book (and just now remembering I&#8217;ve never posted the last little book), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/a-little-work-play-in-the-studio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A little work\/play in the studio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-lettering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-Gd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}