[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":10},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-i":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":8},"blogPost",null,"Here's a photo of today's morning sketch, this time a portrait of Russian writer and poet \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushkin\">Alexander Pushkin\u003C/a>. It was fun giving him great hair.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_pushkin_portrait-a418b8f395.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI started drawing from a portrait by \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiprensky\">Orest Kiprensky\u003C/a>, but it's printed so badly in in my little art book that I got frustrated and looked up this etching of the painting, so I could see the clothing better. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pushkin-610bed3dc0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI lived in Moscow for a couple years in the mid-'90s, and over there, Pushkin is a total rock star. Some of my most vivid memories of Russia are of bosomy, middle-aged women in shiny blouses delivering deep-voiced, passionate renditions of Pushkin poems. ...They're rather terrifying when they do that.\\r\n\\r\nNo snow yet here in London, but I've been looking at \u003Ca href=\"http://web.stagram.com/n/thesolitarybee/\">photos from Devon\u003C/a>... oh my. We usually get their weather a day or two later.","2013-01-18T08:50:00.000Z","i",[],1776628724678]