{"id":44,"date":"2026-10-11T03:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/why-week-one-is-all-about-the-value-scale\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:17:03","slug":"why-week-one-is-all-about-the-value-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/why-week-one-is-all-about-the-value-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Why week one is all about the value scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the first Monday of the Foundation term everyone draws the same thing: ten boxes in a row, shaded from the white of the paper to the darkest the pencil will go (sample).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It sounds dull. It is the most useful half hour of the course, because every still life, portrait and landscape afterwards is judged against it: is that shadow a six or an eight?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pin yours beside the easel. By week five you will not need it, and by week ten you will notice you still look at it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten boxes, one pencil, and the reason every drawing course starts there (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-artclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}