{"id":878,"date":"2010-04-20T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2013-07-29T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T07:01:21","slug":"pochahantas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Pochahantas?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gasp! Now there’s a picture of a naked person on the internet! (click for full)<\/p>\n


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On Saturday mornings I’ve been going to life-drawing sessions at Hipbone Studios<\/a>. Needless to say, there’s no better way to study anatomy. A lot of my sketches look great until I look at them from arm’s length and realize the proportions are totally off – I’ve got to work on keeping the “big picture” in mind even as I’m rendering the details. Betty Edward’s Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain<\/a> has already been of invaluable service in helping to fix this.<\/p>\n

The model this Saturday had the high cheekbones I associate with Native Americans, and one of the poses she struck made me think of the classic image of an Indian on a mountain outcrop watching the arrival of the first Europeans. Specifically, it makes me think of the line from Disney’s Pochahantas<\/span>, “… strange clouds…” Hey, if they’re from the western <\/span>hemisphere, it can’t be orientalist, right? RIGHT?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gasp! Now there’s a picture of a naked person on the internet! (click for full) On Saturday mornings I’ve been going to life-drawing sessions at Hipbone Studios. Needless to say, there’s no better way to study anatomy. A lot of my sketches look great until I look at them from arm’s length and realize the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everettpatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}