{"id":81,"date":"2009-05-30T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverdogprints.com\/photocardblog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-03-08T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:08:37","slug":"drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My six-year-old son loves to draw.  He has to get his fix at least once a day or he gets kinda grumpy about missing it.  I admire his dedication and enthusiasm to his art and hope he keeps it for a lifetime.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve discovered that in making most of my designs, I use my computer for &#8220;drawing&#8221; and creating.  Whether it&#8217;s a pen+tablet or using software, it sometimes seems like I&#8217;m holding something between me and the design.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne of my more recent Party Invitations, requested by someone, was for a zoo theme.  I felt a bit out of my own comfort zone, but took inspiration from one of my boys&#8217; favorite books, <em><strong>Goodnight Gorilla<\/strong><\/em> by Peggy Rathman.  I love how the illustrations speak more than the words and our family has always enjoyed looking for that tiny red balloon that&#8217;s drawn on every page.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBased on Ms. Rathman&#8217;s adorable animals, I took out pen and paper and paid my homage.  I scanned my finished doodles, colored them and created a design where they could live.  It felt great to hold a pen and draw on paper.  I&#8217;ll have to join my son more often in his daily sessions.  He&#8217;s a smart boy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverdogprints.com\/Photo-Invitations-Zoo-Design.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/zoo11.jpg\" alt=\"The Zoo Party Invitation Design\" title=\"zoo\" width=\"510\" height=\"408\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Zoo Party Invitation Design<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My six-year-old son loves to draw. He has to get his fix at least once a day or he gets kinda grumpy about missing it. I admire his dedication and enthusiasm to his art and hope he keeps it for a lifetime. I&#8217;ve discovered that in making most of my designs, I use my computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,114,186,247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-goodnight-gorilla","category-party-invitations","category-stationery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10592,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/10592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}