{"id":123,"date":"2022-04-19T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2022-04-19T10:39:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T09:39:31","slug":"april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/04\/19\/april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m reading:<\/strong> Uprooted by Naomi Novik. I read Spinning Silver by her last year and loved it; this one is in the same genre and maybe I still prefer Spinning Silver but it’s very good! Lots of fantasy and magic and evil trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m knitting: <\/strong>Still working on my stripy tank top. I haven’t been knitting at home much recently so I’ve mainly been working on this during long car journeys (I can’t read or use screens in a moving car without getting a headache but also I get bored so I take some fairly plain knitting I don’t have to look at) (obviously I am not the driver). It’s worked bottom-up and I’m nearly at the armholes. I might have to knit at home for a bit then while I divide for the top parts etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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stripy colourful tank top knitting project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m drawing: <\/strong>Lots of sketches at the moment! Trying to work from photographs and it’s very tricky. I can get better results by using a grid but I’m trying to learn how to sketch people freehand. I’ve managed one or two that are recognisable which I’m happy about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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sketches of my daughters, some better than others (the sketches, not the daughters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I’m learning:<\/strong> How to do more lettering and doodle illustrations, from this course on Domestika, Creative Doodling and Hand-Lettering for Beginners with Grace Fr\u00f6s\u00e9n<\/a>. I like the Domestika courses, I’ve done a couple of others (Creative Watercolour Sketching for Beginners with Laura McKendry<\/a> and Artistic Portrait with Watercolours with Alejandro Casanova<\/a>). I like how they’re easy to pick up and do bits when I have the time and inclination and I’ve learnt a lot from each one. I do find it difficult to make myself watch videos, I usually have to be doing something else at the same time, something crafty or playing a computer game. I bought a bundle of courses in a Black Friday sale and still have three more to do but there’s no rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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doodles!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I’m reading: Uprooted by Naomi Novik. I read Spinning Silver by her last year and loved it; this one is in the same genre and maybe I still prefer Spinning Silver but it’s very good! Lots of fantasy and magic and evil trees. I’m knitting: Still working on my stripy tank top. I haven’t been… Continue reading April 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,8,16,17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-craft","category-drawing","category-knitting","category-reading","category-sketchbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annawaites.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}