{"id":1236,"date":"2011-09-15T20:16:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T02:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2011-09-15T20:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T02:16:58","slug":"boat-after-watelet-after-rembrandt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"boat after Watelet after Rembrandt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/boat-after-watelet-after-rembrandt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1237\" title=\"boat after watelet after rembrandt\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/boat-after-watelet-after-rembrandt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/boat-after-watelet-after-rembrandt.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/boat-after-watelet-after-rembrandt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/boat-after-watelet-after-rembrandt-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and fifty-eight:<\/strong> Today I was helping a curator from another museum who was studying 18th-century French etchings, and we both appreciated a charming landscape with an empty boat by Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786). Shortly after we were browsing a book of Rembrandt (1606-1669) etchings, and came across one of the same boat in the same landscape that Watelet had obviously been studying. Today&#8217;s sketch honors both etching masters with a detail of the boat and the tall tree stump. I put my name where both Watelet and Rembrandt did too.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note for printy people, I am delighted to report that I have finally found a solution to my quest for a suitable medium in Corel Painter that will emulate the effect of drypoint burr on ink: a fine camel watercolor brush with high diffusion and low evaporation rate. Want a little plate tone? Create a layer behind your &#8220;etching&#8221; and use a broad flat wash to tint the areas you want to be darker. I&#8217;m thrilled with all that I have learned using watercolor the last several days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and fifty-eight: Today I was helping a curator from another museum who was studying 18th-century French etchings, and we both appreciated a charming landscape with an empty boat by Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786). Shortly after we were browsing a book of Rembrandt (1606-1669) etchings, and came across one of the same boat in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[27,83,84,7,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236"}],"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=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}