{"id":653,"date":"2011-05-11T22:18:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T04:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=653"},"modified":"2011-05-11T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T04:18:19","slug":"bellows-drawing-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"bellows drawing style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/bellows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-654\" title=\"bellows\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/bellows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bellows.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bellows-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one hundred and thirty-one:<\/strong> A late evening discussion in the Thrivent Financial Religious Art Gallery about George Bellows&#8217; painting of <em>The Crucifixion<\/em> reminded me that I wanted to sketch this figure from one of his prints. The male nude appears in a 1923 lithograph titled <em>Christ of the Wheel<\/em>. I chose it because of the interesting diagonal hatch marks that Bellows used on the man&#8217;s back. My layers of charcoal lines in a variety of gray tones is an attempt to emulate the effect that Bellows achieved with the lithographic medium. I had a lot of fun working on this figure study, and found that when I relaxed and stopped trying to mimic every line perfectly, then I really started to draw &#8212; even though I was mimicking another artist&#8217;s style. Bellows is perhaps best known for his famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandart.org\/collections\/collection%20online.aspx?type=refresh&amp;csearch=department:American%20Painting%20and%20Sculpture&amp;pid={91ADCD8F-992A-45A5-8599-70835467DF5E}&amp;coid=5892436\" target=\"_blank\">painting of boxers at the Cleveland Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day one hundred and thirty-one: A late evening discussion in the Thrivent Financial Religious Art Gallery about George Bellows&#8217; painting of The Crucifixion reminded me that I wanted to sketch this figure from one of his prints. The male nude appears in a 1923 lithograph titled Christ of the Wheel. I chose it because of [&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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}