[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-pilgrim-of-the-blessed-connection":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today's morning sketch. I think I've started off on a series of interpretations of famous pieces of Russian art. (See the drawing of Pushkin \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/536627.html\">here\u003C/a>.) I was curious to see how I'd draw the beard on this guy. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wifi_priest-0281d99f32.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's a nice way to finish breakfast. Here you can see the original figure on the 1559 shrine to \u003Ca href=\"http://orthodoxwiki.org/John_of_Novgorod_and_Wonderworker\">Archbishop John of Novgorod\u003C/a>. (Oo, I found him on Wikipedia, he had his own superhero name of Wonderworker.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/drawing_breakfast-eb1f3b10b6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA morning sketch is also a way of procrastinating before walk to a rather cold studio. Here's how it looked at the peak of its snowy glory:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleece_station_snow-ace6f0f10d.jpg\">","2013-01-24T09:06:00.000Z","pilgrim-of-the-blessed-connection",[],"pilgrim of the blessed connection",1776628724704]