{"id":1590,"date":"2011-12-04T20:51:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2011-12-04T20:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T02:51:32","slug":"face-of-ganesha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"face of Ganesha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/12\/face-of-ganesha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1591\" title=\"face of ganesha\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/12\/face-of-ganesha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/face-of-ganesha.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/face-of-ganesha-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/face-of-ganesha-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day three hundred and thirty-eight: <\/strong>A visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art&#8217;s Asian galleries this afternoon led to my encounter with &#8220;Dancing Ganesha,&#8221; a sandstone sculpture made circa 750 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. Today&#8217;s sketch focuses on a detail of the Hindu deity&#8217;s elephant head. I was quite pleased to find myself able to sketch and shade the forms with hatch marks that are somewhat systematic. That&#8217;s not to say that many of my decisions to make the shading lines move in one direction or another were a bit arbitrary, but I felt like a real artist for a flickering moment. Mostly, I enjoyed imagining myself scratching away on a copper plate with an etching needle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three hundred and thirty-eight: A visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art&#8217;s Asian galleries this afternoon led to my encounter with &#8220;Dancing Ganesha,&#8221; a sandstone sculpture made circa 750 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. Today&#8217;s sketch focuses on a detail of the Hindu deity&#8217;s elephant head. I was quite pleased to find myself able [&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":[12,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}