{"id":30598,"date":"2017-04-28T01:44:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T08:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30598"},"modified":"2017-04-27T18:49:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:49:03","slug":"birthday-rottweiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/birthday-rottweiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Rottweiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RottweilerProfile-SMALL_042717-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RottweilerProfile-SMALL_042717-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RottweilerProfile-SMALL_042717-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RottweilerProfile-SMALL_042717-1-450x327.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RottweilerProfile-SMALL_042717-1-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RottweilerProfile-SMALL_042717-1-800x582.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ooooh. Remind me never to try to draw a jowly dog again! Not unless I have a much better reference photo. I was in over my head and struggled with this one, start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my neighbor&#8217;s birthday tomorrow and my neighbor is a Rottweiler fan. Fortunately she&#8217;s also refreshingly frank. So when I give it to her with the request, &#8220;Tell me if it&#8217;s complete crap and you don&#8217;t want it,&#8221; she&#8217;ll do me the favor of being honest rather than painfully polite. If she says she likes it and wants it, she&#8217;ll mean it. (I like that in a person in general, but with art, honesty is a service; it&#8217;s the only way I&#8217;ll ever learn.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, here it is. 12&#215;9&#8243;, graphite pencil and white colored pencil, on the &#8220;wrong&#8221; side of sand-colored Canson Mi-Tientes paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooooh. Remind me never to try to draw a jowly dog again! Not unless I have a much better reference photo. I was in over my head and struggled with this one, start to finish. It&#8217;s my neighbor&#8217;s birthday tomorrow and my neighbor is a Rottweiler fan. Fortunately she&#8217;s also refreshingly frank. So when I give it to her with the request, &#8220;Tell me if it&#8217;s complete crap and you don&#8217;t want it,&#8221; she&#8217;ll do me the favor of being honest rather than painfully polite. If she says she likes it and wants it, she&#8217;ll mean it. (I like that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/birthday-rottweiler\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birthday Rottweiler<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-dogs-and-cats","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30606,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30598\/revisions\/30606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}