{"id":1345,"date":"2011-10-10T18:37:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T00:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2011-10-10T20:08:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T02:08:44","slug":"detail-of-a-tree-trunk-after-luigi-sabatelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"detail of a tree trunk after Luigi Sabatelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/tree-trunk-after-Luigi-Sabatelli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1346\" title=\"tree trunk after Luigi Sabatelli\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/tree-trunk-after-Luigi-Sabatelli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-trunk-after-Luigi-Sabatelli.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-trunk-after-Luigi-Sabatelli-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-trunk-after-Luigi-Sabatelli-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and eighty-three:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s a first: what I decide to sketch took a fraction of the time I thought it would! Usually it&#8217;s the other way around. This afternoon, a curator&#8217;s request sent me into a gallery of drawings, and although I had seen the drawing before, my recent work with pen and brown ink made me look more closely at one by Luigi Sabatelli (Italian; 1772-1850) titled <em>The Madness of Orlando<\/em>. I noticed an intensely detailed tree trunk, and realized that emulating Sabatelli&#8217;s pen work would be great practice. I chose a very small area to copy, so I could really focus on how the lines functioned. I didn&#8217;t want to just see degrees of light and dark, which I tend to translate into scribbles if left to my own devices. The sketch you see here is the result of my experiment. I think the next step will be to zoom out a bit, and try to really create the subject, while employing a system of curved hatches, dashes, and dots similar to Sabatelli&#8217;s. He was a talented young man, and made his large, masterful drawing around the age of 23. Check out the 18th-century original at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philamuseum.org\/collections\/permanent\/93174.html?mulR=3736|1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.philamuseum.org\/collections\/permanent\/93174.html?mulR=3736|1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and eighty-three: Here&#8217;s a first: what I decide to sketch took a fraction of the time I thought it would! Usually it&#8217;s the other way around. This afternoon, a curator&#8217;s request sent me into a gallery of drawings, and although I had seen the drawing before, my recent work with pen and [&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":[35,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}