{"id":346,"date":"2011-03-05T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T03:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=346"},"modified":"2011-03-05T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T03:50:43","slug":"three-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"three figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/three-figures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-347\" title=\"three figures\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/three-figures.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/three-figures.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/three-figures-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/three-figures-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This sketch is the sixty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Day sixty-four: <\/strong>This afternoon I was delighted to learn that one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance made some pretty messy drawings, a result of his exploratory approach to composition. Even more pleasing was hearing Aiden Weston-Lewis describe &#8220;claw hands&#8221; as a fairly salient feature of figures drawn by Titian. Facial features are often equally obscure. I made this drawing after one that has recently been attributed to Titian, and which is currently on view at the MIA in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsmia.org\/titian\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting&#8221;<\/a> (which everyone in the\u00a0 Twin Cities should go see).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch is the sixty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026 Day sixty-four: This afternoon I was delighted to learn that one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance made some pretty messy drawings, a result of his exploratory approach to composition. Even more pleasing [&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":[12,59,37,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}