[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-portraitchallenge-boris-kustodiev":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Here's my version of \u003Ci>The Tradeswoman at Tea\u003C/i> (also translated as \u003Ci>The Merchant's Wife\u003C/i>, the classic Russian painting by \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Kustodiev\">Boris Kustodiev\u003C/a> from 1819. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/127186_original-ce5da279f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThere's a nice description and a bit of background on the original painting from the State Russian Museum \u003Ca href=\"http://kustodiev.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/merchants-wife-at-tea-boris-kustodiev.html?m=1\">over on this blog\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/127434_original-812c259810.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd cartoonist and comics professor \u003Cb>Lynda Barry\u003C/b> has written an excellent essay on why copying artwork is such a good way of studying it. I agree, I don't feel I've really seen a piece properly until I've drawn it myself, learning all the different parts of it and wondering why the artist had a certain line ending in a certain place or admiring a positioning of colour to make something in the painting appear to leap forward. Read the whole \u003Ca href=\"http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/149444721589/dear-students-a-message-to-you-sincerely\">essay on Lynda's blog\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/149444721589/dear-students-a-message-to-you-sincerely\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/127508_original-a850b21b7a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>","2016-08-25T13:13:00.000Z","portraitchallenge-boris-kustodiev",[],"#portraitchallenge: boris kustodiev",1776628728586]