{"id":4018,"date":"2024-11-27T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2024-11-26T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T21:21:55","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-lake-michigan-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/11\/sketch-of-the-week-lake-michigan-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the Week: Lake Michigan Sunset (Nov 20, 2024) plus a Thanksgiving treat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Both kids unanimously voted for this sketch, which is based on a photo I took in the summer of 2020:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2559-300x222.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a beach scene at sunset. Small figures are visible in the foreground. \" class=\"wp-image-4019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2559-300x222.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2559-1024x757.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2559-768x568.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2559-1536x1135.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2559-1200x887.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2559.jpeg 1993w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My kids are the small figures playing in the surf near the middle of the image, but that isn&#8217;t why they chose it; they both really liked the play of the light on the water and the shadows on the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to admit, I&#8217;m pleased with how the light on the water came out, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a bonus, I&#8217;ve got another sketch from the joke that featured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/11\/sketch-of-the-week-creep\/\">meditating warrior squirrel from last week<\/a>. Here he battles a vicious wild turkey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2558-1024x770.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch showing a noble warrior-monk squirrel samurai closing in to do battle with a vicious wild turkey.\" class=\"wp-image-4020\" width=\"768\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2558-1024x770.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2558-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2558-768x578.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2558-1536x1156.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2558-2048x1541.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2558-1200x903.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both kids unanimously voted for this sketch, which is based on a photo I took in the summer of 2020: My kids are the small figures playing in the surf near the middle of the image, but that isn&#8217;t why they chose it; they both really liked the play of the light on the water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/11\/sketch-of-the-week-lake-michigan-sunset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketch of the Week: Lake Michigan Sunset (Nov 20, 2024) plus a Thanksgiving treat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1021,1022],"tags":[113,1026,1059,1057,1054,904,572,1060,1025,1024,1056,1058,366],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/113555789916134096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}