{"id":1010,"date":"2014-08-02T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2014-08-02T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T22:20:44","slug":"sketching-with-toes-in-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Sketching &#8211; with toes in sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_Vvelella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1428\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_Vvelella.jpg\" alt=\"Velella velella by KAnandakuttan\" width=\"1872\" height=\"1164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_Vvelella.jpg 1872w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_Vvelella-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_Vvelella-1024x636.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_Vvelella-400x250.jpg 400w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_Vvelella-1080x671.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1872px) 100vw, 1872px\" \/><\/a>Velella velella washed up on Wrights Beach, south of Jenner, CA. July 30, 2014<\/p>\n<p>All the others in sight were flyaway, transparent and dry; this one still wet and brilliantly blue. I ignored a beautiful beach scene just long enough to sketch a portrait. These relatives of jellies drift with the wind.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/science\/article\/Beachings-of-exotic-blue-velella-tied-to-wind-5661124.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/science\/article\/Beachings-of-exotic-blue-velella-tied-to-wind-5661124.php\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what could be more fun than low tide? Again, eyes on my page (gulls cry and waves crash, children play)\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_LowtideBodegaHd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1430\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_LowtideBodegaHd-1024x377.jpg\" alt=\"Low tide Bodega Head by KAnandakuttan\" width=\"1024\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_LowtideBodegaHd-1024x377.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_LowtideBodegaHd-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sketch_LowtideBodegaHd-1080x398.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Low tide at Bodega Head, July 2, 2014 by KAnandakuttan<\/p>\n<p>The jewel-tones of wet seaweed! Several red algae,\u00a0rhizomous surf grass (like whales, returned to the sea from land), bits of ostrich plume hydroid, corraline alga, a piece of the crumbling cliffs and specks of sand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velella velella washed up on Wrights Beach, south of Jenner, CA. July 30, 2014 All the others in sight were flyaway, transparent and dry; this one still wet and brilliantly blue. I ignored a beautiful beach scene just long enough to sketch a portrait. These relatives of jellies drift with the wind.http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/science\/article\/Beachings-of-exotic-blue-velella-tied-to-wind-5661124.php\u00a0 And what could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[22,93,160,199],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-sketchbook","tag-beach","tag-marine","tag-sonoma-coast","tag-velella-velella"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}