{"id":4273,"date":"2025-10-03T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:14:09","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-young-dali-copy-copy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-young-dali-copy-copy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"My glass is neither half full nor half empty\u2026 (Sketch of the Week for Week 39 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2026 because it isn’t a glass of water; it’s just a sketch. But I like how I began to capture the light here. I didn’t get it right, but I got closer than I think I’ve gotten on any sketch before, and I really do love light and shadow and refraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That said, I did a terrible job of capturing “glass” in this glass. Here’s one of my father’s<\/a> finished drawings on a similar theme (though no water; his glass was entirely empty. Let that be a lesson to you.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve always loved this drawing, how precise and controlled it is, how it makes a flat white page into a space one can occupy. I suppose there’s a lesson there, too: the hours upon hours spent making a small orderly corner of the world where every lines makes sense and can be justified and defended, and the whole thing can be secured in a frame unchanging, so you can keep looking back at it and knowing it is there exactly as it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026 because it isn’t a glass of water; it’s just a sketch. But I like how I began to capture the light here. I didn’t get it right, but I got closer than I think I’ve gotten on any sketch before, and I really do love light and shadow and refraction. That said, I did … Continue reading “My glass is neither half full nor half empty\u2026 (Sketch of the Week for Week 39 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":[113,1026,688,1146,904,572,1025,1024,1145],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/115310411612563570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273"}],"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=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}