{"id":710,"date":"2013-09-10T12:07:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2014-07-05T02:24:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T02:24:23","slug":"the-zinnias-made-me-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"The zinnias made me do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_zinnias1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-711\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_zinnias1.jpg\" alt=\"sketchbook_zinnias_KristaAnandakuttan\" width=\"580\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_zinnias1.jpg 746w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_zinnias1-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>Skipper moth, \u00a0Common checkered skipper, California hairstreak butterfly, Cabbage white; Zinnias, Lavendar<\/p>\n<p>Watercolor, colored pencil and graphite<\/p>\n<p>The pollinators are right, I have been walking past these intense colors for too long. My brightest colored pencils and watercolors were required and still fell short, and I admit to burnishing to achieve color saturation. I sketched a view of the Hairstreak from below (below) with its amazing &#8220;false head&#8221; (that&#8217;s a real term! a special form of <em>crypsis<\/em> in which part of an organism mimics another part) which might trick predators, and make us smile in the meantime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-KA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_hairstreak-butterfly1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-715\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_hairstreak-butterfly1.jpg\" alt=\"sketchbook_hairstreak butterflyKAnandakuttan\" width=\"347\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_hairstreak-butterfly1.jpg 347w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_hairstreak-butterfly1-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a>A footnote:<\/p>\n<p>my fresco painting \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchionline.com\/art-collection\/Digital\/Originals-for-500-and-Under\/153961\/53083\/view\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Small Moon&#8221; is featured in Saatchi&#8217;s online gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(or see it here in an earlier post: <a title=\"Waning\u00a0moon\" href=\"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/21\/waning-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Waning moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; I renamed it Small Moon because a much larger one followed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skipper moth, \u00a0Common checkered skipper, California hairstreak butterfly, Cabbage white; Zinnias, Lavendar Watercolor, colored pencil and graphite The pollinators are right, I have been walking past these intense colors for too long. My brightest colored pencils and watercolors were required and still fell short, and I admit to burnishing to achieve color saturation. I sketched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":711,"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":[15,38,39,41,64,106,129,157,167,182],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-sketchbook","tag-art","tag-butterfly","tag-ca","tag-california-artist","tag-garden","tag-natural-history","tag-pollinators","tag-sketchbook-2","tag-summer","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sketchbook_zinnias1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}