{"id":1232,"date":"2014-08-31T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2014-08-31T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T22:27:14","slug":"how-bert-monroy-used-google-maps-to-scout-painting-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/31\/how-bert-monroy-used-google-maps-to-scout-painting-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bert Monroy used Google Maps to perfect his painting details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Master digital painter Bert Monroy is famous for the level of detail in his hyperrealistic works. He based his new <em>Amsterdam Mist<\/em> on a photo he took in person, but it lacked sufficient resolution for him to really replicate various structures &#038; elements. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Illustrator-tutorials\/street-research\/167358\/188432-4.html\">this video<\/a> (part of a series illustrated by the new painting) he talks about how he used Street View in Google Maps to cruise around the neighborhood, zooming in on key details.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/player\/embed\/188432?fs=3&amp;w=560&amp;h=315&amp;ps=paused&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=embed+video&amp;utm_campaign=ldc-website&amp;utm_content=vid-188432\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[Via James Fritz]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master digital painter Bert Monroy is famous for the level of detail in his hyperrealistic works. He based his new Amsterdam Mist on a photo he took in person, but it lacked sufficient resolution for him to really replicate various structures &#038; elements. In this video (part of a series illustrated by the new painting) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}