{"id":970,"date":"2011-07-20T19:17:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=970"},"modified":"2011-07-20T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:18:43","slug":"haystacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"haystacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/07\/haystacks-van-gogh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-971\" title=\"haystacks van gogh\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/07\/haystacks-van-gogh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/haystacks-van-gogh.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/haystacks-van-gogh-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and one: <\/strong>Today I saw a drawing titled <em>Haystacks <\/em>by Vincent van Gogh. I am so accustomed to seeing his paintings, that I was surprised to see something clearly by his hand, but without the vibrant color. In the 1888 original, van Gogh used reed pen, quill and ink, over graphite. I used a digital drawing pad to try and emulate the subtle and beautiful variation in tone produced by all the lines and dots. I would bet that my sketch has less than half the dashes and points and splotches that van Gogh made, and I must admit that I cheated by adding broad swatches of tone on a lower layer, and smoothed it out with &#8220;water.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and one: Today I saw a drawing titled Haystacks by Vincent van Gogh. I am so accustomed to seeing his paintings, that I was surprised to see something clearly by his hand, but without the vibrant color. In the 1888 original, van Gogh used reed pen, quill and ink, over graphite. I [&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":[12,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}