{"id":398,"date":"2011-03-16T19:54:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=398"},"modified":"2011-03-16T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T02:01:37","slug":"en-masse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"en masse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/en-masse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399\" title=\"en masse\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/en-masse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/en-masse.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/en-masse-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/en-masse-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This sketch is the seventy-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day seventy-five: <\/strong>Belgian avant-garde artist, James Ensor, is a favorite of mine. Especially his etchings. I made this drawing of a detail from one of his earliest (1886) and most famous prints, <em>La Cath\u00e9drale<\/em><em>, <\/em>from memory. In his etching a mass of people, including rows and rows of soldiers with sashes and tall hats, disintegrates into a haze of tiny dashes and dots. The tonal effect is phenomenal. So was the cramp in my hand as I tried to discover what Ensor&#8217;s process of drawing the hundreds of figures might have been like. He must have liked repetitive, methodical activity; sometimes Ensor hand colored the uniforms of the all the soldiers &#8211; especially the sashes &#8211; after the image was printed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch is the seventy-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026 Day seventy-five: Belgian avant-garde artist, James Ensor, is a favorite of mine. Especially his etchings. I made this drawing of a detail from one of his earliest (1886) and most famous prints, La Cath\u00e9drale, from [&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":[12,47,27,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}