{"id":133,"date":"2007-06-16T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-06-16T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T15:34:00","slug":"drawing-i-gestural-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/drawing-i-gestural-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing I &#8212; gestural drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/RnQEC6YMgNI\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/ICfZdjiuBmM\/s1600-h\/2007-05-23+gestural+arrangement.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/RnQEC6YMgNI\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/ICfZdjiuBmM\/s320\/2007-05-23+gestural+arrangement.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076687128030380242\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Drawing is one very good reason I&#8217;m a calligrapher. I mean it. This drawing class is like trying to walk after choosing to sit for decades. I leave every 2-1\/2 hour class meeting simply exhausted. Which seems ridiculous, but how hard can it be to put on paper what you see with your eyes? Pretty hard, evidently.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the first image of my first efforts in Drawing I.  This one was a gestural drawing of an arrangement of really, really random things in the center of the classroom: a partially dismembered skeleton, a red tricycle, various fake flowers, and some Styrofoam balls.<\/p>\n<p>We were given 1 minute, then 3 minutes, to get as much of the still life down on huge sheets of paper &#8212; these sheets were about 24&#8243; x 36&#8243;. Then we started on this fresh sheet and were told we had 5 minutes, but after the first 5 minutes we were given another 10 minutes to get in more detail.<\/p>\n<p>Very stressful for me. I&#8217;m hoping this all starts to come a little easier as the semester wears on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing is one very good reason I&#8217;m a calligrapher. I mean it. This drawing class is like trying to walk after choosing to sit for decades. I leave every 2-1\/2 hour class meeting simply exhausted. Which seems ridiculous, but how hard can it be to put on paper what you see with your eyes? Pretty &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/drawing-i-gestural-drawing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drawing I &#8212; gestural drawing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-29","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}