{"id":1509,"date":"2011-11-14T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T01:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2011-11-14T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T01:56:04","slug":"study-of-illuminated-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"study of illuminated manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/11\/saint-anne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1510\" title=\"saint anne\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/11\/saint-anne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/saint-anne.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/saint-anne-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/saint-anne-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day three hundred and eighteen:<\/strong> Since I usually work with prints, I guess I&#8217;ve tended to make sketches after them. There are, however, illuminated manuscripts in the collection at work, which date to a time before printing. At least in the West (the Chinese were using woodblocks for printing as early as the 9th century). Today&#8217;s drawing is based on a detail of St. Anne (Mary&#8217;s mother) in a French book of hours. Parisian, I believe, but I forget the exact date. In honor of the medium, I tried using the gouache setting on Corel Painter, and hunted for some metallic gold paint, which I never really found. I love the blue background of the original, which I imagine was probably expensive to produce, and has lasted 600 years or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three hundred and eighteen: Since I usually work with prints, I guess I&#8217;ve tended to make sketches after them. There are, however, illuminated manuscripts in the collection at work, which date to a time before printing. At least in the West (the Chinese were using woodblocks for printing as early as the 9th century). [&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":[12,26,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509"}],"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=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}