{"id":1164,"date":"2017-06-16T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2017-06-16T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:30:24","slug":"forget-da-vinci-all-abilities-welcome-at-the-sketching-in-practice-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/updates\/forget-da-vinci-all-abilities-welcome-at-the-sketching-in-practice-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget da Vinci: All Abilities Welcome at the Sketching in Practice Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Squiggle birds\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vK3yQBouzNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like zombies, shark tornadoes, and Wi-Fi dead zones, the idea of putting pen to paper strikes fear in the hearts of many adults.<\/p>\n<p>We get it. I for one can remember the kids in my grade 8 art class laughing hysterically at my sketch of Princess Ariel getting married (though to be fair to them it did look more like a whale carcass on roller skates than a mermaid bride).<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the Sketching in Practice Symposium is a judgement-free, all-levels-of-(non)-expertise-welcomed zone.<\/p>\n<p>If you can draw a straight line, \u00a0or a wavy one, or even a squiggle, then you will be ready to engage with the many exciting approaches, tools, and ways of thinking that our presenters will be sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Still don&#8217;t believe us? Watch the Squiggle Bird video above to see how even your messiest line can be turned into an adorable tweeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Like zombies, shark tornadoes, and Wi-Fi dead zones, the idea of putting pen to paper strikes fear in the hearts of many adults. We get it. I for one can remember the kids in my grade 8 art class laughing hysterically at my sketch of Princess Ariel getting married (though to be fair to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[53,54],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-drawing","tag-sketching-in-practice-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}