{"id":20195,"date":"2022-05-02T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=20195"},"modified":"2022-05-02T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:05:08","slug":"mermay-the-mermaid-month-art-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/05\/02\/mermay-the-mermaid-month-art-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"MerMay: The Mermaid Month Art Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20197\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-10.04.26-PM-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-10.04.26-PM-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-10.04.26-PM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-10.04.26-PM-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-10.04.26-PM-750x410.png 750w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-10.04.26-PM-1140x624.png 1140w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-10.04.26-PM.png 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For my last blog post, I thought I would share with you my first illustration for MerMay. For those of you who do not know, MerMay is an art challenge in the month of May, where every day or once a week, you create an illustration of a mermaid. The rules are flexible and there are many prompts you can follow. Obviously, due to my love of folklore as established by my previous blog posts, this challenge perfectly suits my interest.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone has a great summer, and I hope to come back this fall with more art for you all to enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20196\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/det8hdr-77ab000a-e116-4f7a-94db-fe6a0805afd0-783x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/det8hdr-77ab000a-e116-4f7a-94db-fe6a0805afd0-783x1024.png 783w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/det8hdr-77ab000a-e116-4f7a-94db-fe6a0805afd0-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/det8hdr-77ab000a-e116-4f7a-94db-fe6a0805afd0-768x1005.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my last blog post, I thought I would share with you my first illustration for MerMay. For those of you who do not know, MerMay is an art challenge in the month of May, where every day or once a week, you create an illustration of a mermaid. The rules are flexible and there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20198,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions\/20198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}