{"id":4278,"date":"2025-10-10T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:57:32","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-tree-and-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-tree-and-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree and Bench [NOT PICTURED: all of humanity]  (Sketch of the Week for Week 40 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Week 40 was &#8220;Tree Week&#8221; in my journal, where I worked on capturing more different kinds of trees under different lighting conditions. It didn&#8217;t go superterrific, but my son liked this one because the overall composition communicated the scale nicely, and it captured something of the late-day autumn light in Michigan, which has an oddly specific angle and saturation.<\/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\/2025\/10\/IMG_3701-1024x710.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a tree near a bench and pathway, caught in the deep slanting light of late-day Michigan autumn.\" class=\"wp-image-4279\" width=\"368\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3701-1024x710.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3701-300x208.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3701-768x533.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3701-1536x1065.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3701-1200x832.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3701.jpeg 1811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 85vw, 368px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sharing it not because it&#8217;s especially good, but just because it puts me in the mind of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Hopper#Selected_works\">Edward Hopper<\/a>, who I think captured the unique (and uniquely enduring) dimensions of American Loneliness better than any other artist who has yet lived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 40 was &#8220;Tree Week&#8221; in my journal, where I worked on capturing more different kinds of trees under different lighting conditions. It didn&#8217;t go superterrific, but my son liked this one because the overall composition communicated the scale nicely, and it captured something of the late-day autumn light in Michigan, which has an oddly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-tree-and-bench\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tree and Bench [NOT PICTURED: all of humanity]  (Sketch of the Week for Week 40 of 2025)&#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":[113,1026,1148,1147,904,572,1025,1024,1027],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/115350418792663678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278"}],"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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}