{"id":6343,"date":"2023-03-21T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2024-03-13T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:56:46","slug":"pen-and-ink-sketch-sweet-chestnut-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/pen-and-ink-sketch-sweet-chestnut-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen and ink sketch \u2013 sweet chestnut tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/dordogne-chestnut-tree-pen-ink-sketch.jpg\" alt=\"dip pen and ink sketch sweet chestnut tree\" title=\"pen and ink sketch chestnut tree\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dip pen and ink sketch of a sweet chestnut tree.   Drawn from life.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dip pen and ink.     13cm x 18cm.      4th September 1991.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a dip pen and ink sketch of a sweet chestnut tree in the Dordogne region of France that I drew from life on quite a cold day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are numerous sweet chestnut trees in this part of France, as they were cultivated for their nuts, which I believe were a major part of the local diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree was very old with lots of dead branches. There were also lots of leaves, which I think may have been growing on relatively new branches that may have sprouted lower down the tree when the tree recovered from a trauma of some description (and which nearly killed it off). Behind the tree is a ramshackle hut which appeared to have almost become part of the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dip pen and ink sketch of a sweet chestnut tree. Drawn from life. Dip pen and ink. 13cm x 18cm. 4th September 1991. This is a dip pen and ink sketch of a sweet chestnut tree in the Dordogne region of France that I drew from life on quite a cold day. There are numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,17],"tags":[105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8163,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions\/8163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}