{"id":2515,"date":"2026-06-14T20:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:34:03","slug":"14-summer-shards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/06\/14\/14-summer-shards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"#14 summer shards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month I have been making an effort to make a drawing a day in my sketchbook of recent work from the wood kiln. These are ten minute sketches with pen or pencil and a bit of watercolor. Later, I often add some acrylic paint to give the object a sense of place. The habit of drawing always teaches me more about the art of looking. I have been photographing these drawings and importing them to our iPad where I can hand letter bits of text. On one sketch of a Blade Moon I inscribed a T.S. Eliot quote, “between the idea and the reality is the shadow.” I shared these images with a group via Zoom on Saturday. I felt the images come alive as I read the words and my audience saw them. An organic understanding grew between teller and listener as I read and they responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cStories don\u2019t exist on the page or in the mouth,\u201d she [Jane Yolen] told The Boston Globe in 1987. \u201cThey exist between \u2014 between writer and reader, between teller and listener.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jane Yolen in Clay Risen, obituary<\/a> for Jane Yolen in New York Times, 6\/14\/2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.
\u2014David Hockney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month I have been making an effort to make a drawing a day in my sketchbook of recent work from the wood kiln. These are ten minute sketches with pen or pencil and a bit of watercolor. Later, I often add some acrylic paint to give the object a sense of place. The habit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}