{"id":730,"date":"2011-05-27T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T02:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=730"},"modified":"2011-05-27T20:15:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T02:15:28","slug":"thunder-and-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"thunder and lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/thunder-and-lightning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-731\" title=\"thunder and lightning\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/thunder-and-lightning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/thunder-and-lightning.jpg 467w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/thunder-and-lightning-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one hundred and forty-seven:<\/strong> Every time I finish a sketch it feels like a miracle has just occurred. Today&#8217;s drawing is a study of a sculpture titled &#8220;Thunder and Lightning&#8221; by Minnesota artist Paul Granlund. I love the balance of the intertwining male and female figures. The style I used doesn&#8217;t quite capture the foreshortening necessary to give the duo the three dimensionality they deserve, and as a result the legs seems short. They probably are a little shorter than they should be, as my skills with proportion are not well honed. Still, I&#8217;m thrilled to have been able to easily sketch the complex overlapping forms of Granlund&#8217;s sculpture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day one hundred and forty-seven: Every time I finish a sketch it feels like a miracle has just occurred. Today&#8217;s drawing is a study of a sculpture titled &#8220;Thunder and Lightning&#8221; by Minnesota artist Paul Granlund. I love the balance of the intertwining male and female figures. The style I used doesn&#8217;t quite capture 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":[12,37,40,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}