{"id":4520,"date":"2026-08-07T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:10:03","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-feral-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2026\/08\/sketch-of-the-week-feral-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Feral Flowers (Sketches of the Week for Week 31 of 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5034-383x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Three sketches of flowers done in graphite and watercolor pencil. Each flower has been made to look more feral. The top is wild sweet pea flowers, the middle is a a hops leaf, and the bottom is an attacking lily\" class=\"wp-image-4521\" width=\"383\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5034-383x1024.jpeg 383w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5034-112x300.jpeg 112w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5034-768x2053.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5034-575x1536.jpeg 575w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5034-766x2048.jpeg 766w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5034-scaled.jpeg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 85vw, 383px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The title sorta says it all: much like the last couple weeks of clownification were about sketching portraits and then clownifying them, this was sketching plants and then emphasizing how damn threatening many plants look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not gonna say I&#8217;m super happy with any of these\u2014my journal paper is a god-awful medium for watercolor, among other issues\u2014but it was nice to go back to experimenting with other media after several years focused almost exclusively on sketching in pencil with a little ink thrown in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I like the vibe with the lily at the bottom. A lily is a hella scary flower, when you really give it a good look. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title sorta says it all: much like the last couple weeks of clownification were about sketching portraits and then clownifying them, this was sketching plants and then emphasizing how damn threatening many plants look. I&#8217;m not gonna say I&#8217;m super happy with any of these\u2014my journal paper is a god-awful medium for watercolor, among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2026\/08\/sketch-of-the-week-feral-flowers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feral Flowers (Sketches of the Week for Week 31 of 2026)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1021,1022],"tags":[113,1026,1214,904,572,1025,1024,1044],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/117054352159295980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}