{"id":1088,"date":"2011-08-15T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2011-08-15T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T00:03:06","slug":"imaginary-man-with-a-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"imaginary grumpy man with a beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/08\/man-with-a-beard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1089\" title=\"man with a beard\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/08\/man-with-a-beard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/man-with-a-beard.jpg 421w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/man-with-a-beard-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and twenty-seven:<\/strong> This morning I was looking at little etchings of anonymous faces by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and thinking about similar ones by Rembrandt. Rather than copy either of their pictures in their particular styles, I decided to make my own. I suspect they were looking at models in most cases, but for lack of a living subject, I drew this man with a beard from imagination. It seemed to just draw itself in a way, and I&#8217;m glad the sketch of the day is done. I was leaning toward something simply and quick anyway. But I wonder why he looks so grumpy? I myself couldn&#8217;t be more delighted that I get to look at old master prints every day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and twenty-seven: This morning I was looking at little etchings of anonymous faces by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and thinking about similar ones by Rembrandt. Rather than copy either of their pictures in their particular styles, I decided to make my own. I suspect they were looking at models in most cases, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}