{"id":436,"date":"2007-06-03T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=436"},"modified":"2007-06-03T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T22:25:00","slug":"2007-06-03-illustration-friday-pair-a-dice-your-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-06-03-illustration-friday-pair-a-dice-your-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"2007-06-03 Illustration Friday &#8212; Pair-a-Dice &#8212; &#8216;Your Paradise&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/528510234\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1199\/528510234_11f7878486.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/528510234\/\">2007-06-03 Illustration Friday &#8212; Pair-a-Dice &#8212; &#8216;Your Paradise&#8217;<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tI simply cannot resist an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illustrationfriday.com\/\">Illustration Friday<\/a> pun. The topic this week is &#8216;Your Paradise&#8217;. So I just had to give you a &#8216;pair of dice&#8217; hanging from some car mirror.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t want it to be just ANY car in ANY old town. I wanted it to be a really classy car in an awesome place.<\/p>\n<p>So I went trawling Flickr, using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wynia.org\/experiments\/phpflickr\/interesting.php?\">Flickr Photo Finder<\/a>, and found two stunning reference pics.<\/p>\n<p>The car is Carl Palmer&#8217;s pic of a Rolls Royce. It&#8217;s titled &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carlpalmerhull\/196264135\/\">Wedding Car<\/a>&#8216;, and he&#8217;s released it under a Creative Commons &#8216;Attribution &#8212; Share-Alike&#8217; license. Thanks Carl. Rock and Roll(s)!!!<\/p>\n<p>The town is based on a pic of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/macieklew\/335286418\/\">Streets of St Andrews1<\/a>&#8216; by Maciej Lewandowski. He&#8217;s released it under the same license as Carl: a Creative Commons &#8216;Attribution &#8212; Share-Alike&#8217; License. Ultra-scrumptious pic, Maciej. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to use the strong diagonals of the roofs sloping top left down to the car to try and draw attention to the dice in the window. <\/p>\n<p>But I suspect I made the two passersby a little too dark. So they form a strong focus point for the eye.<\/p>\n<p>I could always post-rationalise and say I intended this effect. Kinda along the lines of, &#8216;Yeah&#8230; it makes the dice so much more subtle, and when the viewer notices them, it&#8217;s all that more satisfying for them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In truth, I&#8217;ve only noticed how strong those two passersby are now, as I look at the thumbnail of the pic.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well. It&#8217;s still a satisfying painting for me.<\/p>\n<p><i>I painted this on an ultra chilly day in wintry Johannesburg, South Africa, on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdesign.com\/artrage.html\">ArtRage 2.2<\/a>. The pic is yours to play with under a Creative Commons &#8216;Non-Commercial &#8212; Attribution &#8212; Share-Alike&#8217; license.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007-06-03 Illustration Friday &#8212; Pair-a-Dice &#8212; &#8216;Your Paradise&#8217;, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I simply cannot resist an Illustration Friday pun. The topic this week is &#8216;Your Paradise&#8217;. So I just had to give you a &#8216;pair of dice&#8217; hanging from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-06-03-illustration-friday-pair-a-dice-your-paradise\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2007-06-03 Illustration Friday &#8212; Pair-a-Dice &#8212; &#8216;Your Paradise&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-72","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}