{"id":407,"date":"2011-03-18T21:50:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T03:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-03-20T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T01:39:56","slug":"sketch-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"greek fresco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/tomb-of-the-diver1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-410\" title=\"tomb of the diver\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/tomb-of-the-diver1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/tomb-of-the-diver1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/tomb-of-the-diver1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This sketch is the seventy-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day seventy-seven: <\/strong>Today I enjoyed lunch with art history colleague and friend, Andrew H. Last summer we visited ancient ruins in Ercolano, Pompeii, and Paestum, and saw the &#8220;Tomb of the Diver,&#8221; the only well-preserved example of fifth-century Greek wall painting, now in the museum at Paestum, Italy. This drawing is based on a figure in one of the frescos. The spare, fluid lines are similar in style to those used by Athenian vase painters. This picture may look simple, but I must admit it took me much longer (and more use of an eraser) than I had hoped it would. And it&#8217;s not nearly as elegant as the original. The vase in the man&#8217;s hand is a kylix, a cup used for drinking wine.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew and me with the Tomb of the Diver:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/Andrew-and-James-with-Tomb-of-Diver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-408\" title=\"Andrew and James with Tomb of Diver\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/Andrew-and-James-with-Tomb-of-Diver-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/Andrew-and-James-with-Tomb-of-Diver-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/Andrew-and-James-with-Tomb-of-Diver-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/Andrew-and-James-with-Tomb-of-Diver.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch is the seventy-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026 Day seventy-seven: Today I enjoyed lunch with art history colleague and friend, Andrew H. Last summer we visited ancient ruins in Ercolano, Pompeii, and Paestum, and saw the &#8220;Tomb of the Diver,&#8221; the only well-preserved [&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":[15,12,37,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}