{"id":374,"date":"2011-03-11T22:20:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=374"},"modified":"2011-03-11T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:21:57","slug":"apian-gear-and-aerial-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"apian gear and aerial fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/bruegel-studies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-375\" title=\"bruegel studies\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/bruegel-studies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/bruegel-studies.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/bruegel-studies-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This sketch is the seventieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day seventy: <\/strong>Bizarre as it may seem, this drawing was inspired by a highly influential\u00a0 Netherlandish artist of the sixteenth century: Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It brings together details from two drawings by Bruegel. The flying fish creature is from &#8220;Big Fish Eat Little Fish&#8221; (1556) and the strange masked man one of &#8220;The Beekeepers&#8221; (c. 1567-68). I am repeatedly amazed at the masterful skill of historic artists like Bruegel as I try to emulate their drawing styles (and clumsily fail). Bruegel&#8217;s command of line and his steady hand produce remarkable, virtuosic results akin to another of my favorite draftsmen: his Venetian contemporary, Domenico Campagnola. Bruegel&#8217;s subject matter, however, is often much weirder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch is the seventieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026 Day seventy: Bizarre as it may seem, this drawing was inspired by a highly influential\u00a0 Netherlandish artist of the sixteenth century: Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It brings together details from two drawings by Bruegel. The [&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":[12,64,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}