{"id":4230,"date":"2025-07-31T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:57:40","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/07\/sketch-of-the-week-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushrooms have a lot of character 🍄 🍄‍🟫 (Sketches of the Week for Week 30 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All of last week was Mushroom Week. The first sketch was from life, while canoeing in Voyageur National Park. The rest were from photos I took while hiking there. They\u2019re all either edible painted suillus <\/em>mushrooms or hallucinogenic amanita muscaria<\/em>\u2014and a good thing we didn\u2019t need to rely on my identifications, as the grouping in the second sketch is undeniably the edible painted suillus<\/em>, although I mis-IDed them at the time as amanitas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mushrooms are fun to sketch, sort of halfway between people and architecture: they have more gesture than buildings, but more structure than people, with less nit-picky line detail overall. Sort of like sketching a medium-chill, politely attentive cottage, or a fortress tower waiting for its carry-out to be ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll note times on these. Something that came out of the no-post weeks of working on gesture drawings and faces was a greater attention to how much time I\u2019m spending, and right sizing that effort, so I can confidently jump into a sketch even when I have a limited block of time to work, knowing I\u2019ll be able to get something satisfactory down. All of these took 10 to 20 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All of last week was Mushroom Week. The first sketch was from life, while canoeing in Voyageur National Park. The rest were from photos I took while hiking there. They\u2019re all either edible painted suillus mushrooms or hallucinogenic amanita muscaria\u2014and a good thing we didn\u2019t need to rely on my identifications, as the grouping in … Continue reading “Mushrooms have a lot of character 🍄 🍄‍🟫 (Sketches of the Week for Week 30 of 2025)”<\/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":[113,1026,912,1133,315,904,572,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/114948902689438214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230"}],"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=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}