{"id":4342,"date":"2025-12-17T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:59:42","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-tree-snow-charcoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/12\/sketch-of-the-week-tree-snow-charcoal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree, Snow, Charcoal (Sketch of the Week for Week 50 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\/12\/IMG_3982-764x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"A charcoal sketch of a bare, snowy tree. Snow falls in the gloom.\" class=\"wp-image-4343\" width=\"382\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3982-764x1024.jpeg 764w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3982-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3982-768x1029.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3982-1146x1536.jpeg 1146w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3982-1528x2048.jpeg 1528w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3982-1200x1608.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_3982-scaled.jpeg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 382px) 85vw, 382px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn\u2019t super happy with this one (but much less happy with everything in my journal; I\u2019ve spent the last couple weeks trying to learn to quickly capture facial expressions, and now feel more face-blind than when I began). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My son opined that my dissatisfaction with this charcoal arose from the fact that a deciduous tree has harder lines and holds snow differently than a pine, and thus doesn\u2019t lend itself to the sort of gauzy effect I got in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/12\/sketch-of-the-week-snowtree\/\">Week 49<\/a>. I think I maybe just lucked out last week and ended up punching well above my weight. I <em>did<\/em> like the way further mixing media (adding in white gel pain overtop the Mod Podge that\u2019s overtop the soft charcoal) made the snow pop the way I like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, it\u2019s still winter here, so expect further snowy trees in your future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t super happy with this one (but much less happy with everything in my journal; I\u2019ve spent the last couple weeks trying to learn to quickly capture facial expressions, and now feel more face-blind than when I began). My son opined that my dissatisfaction with this charcoal arose from the fact that a deciduous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/12\/sketch-of-the-week-tree-snow-charcoal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tree, Snow, Charcoal (Sketch of the Week for Week 50 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":[113,1161,1026,904,572,1025,1024,435,1027],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/115735459901254741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342"}],"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=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4344,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}