{"id":651,"date":"2008-06-25T22:43:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T22:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=651"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:20","slug":"cat-scratch-drawing-of-lewis-beale-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2008\/06\/cat-scratch-drawing-of-lewis-beale-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat scratch drawing of Lewis Beale, writer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"sketchbook18lewisbeale.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/sketchbook18lewisbeale.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"680\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a drawing with overpainting of writer Lewis Beale from a photo in the NY Times.<br \/>\nIt looks like a thousand cat scratch brush strokes forming the face.  I thought I stumbled onto something and that if I did thousands of cat scatch portraits they would all look as nice as this one.  It was going to be wonderful, and every drawing I did would look incredible, and it was a formula that was going to work&#8230; every time.  All my drawings would be incredible.  Life was SOLVED!<br \/>\nOh, well. you know the ending. A happy accident.  Life has returned to normal.  Each good drawing is a struggle.  A fluke in the sketchbook of life.<br \/>\nAnyway, if you see this drawing and like it Lewis, let me know.  It&#8217;s a favorite of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a drawing with overpainting of writer Lewis Beale from a photo in the NY Times. It looks like a thousand cat scratch brush strokes forming the face. I thought I stumbled onto something and that if I did thousands of cat scatch portraits they would all look as nice as this one. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}