{"id":27377,"date":"2025-03-30T20:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T19:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27377"},"modified":"2025-03-31T08:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:23:26","slug":"art-the-absent-procureds-van-baburen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27377","title":{"rendered":"ART: The (Absent) Procuress, Van Baburen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5801-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5801-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5801-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5801-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5801-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5801.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Just rediscovered these.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found this pencil drawing and unfinished oil painting, today. Behind another old artwork (an abstract print), in our lounge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason I call this <em>The Absent Procuress<\/em> is because in the original there\u2019s an old crone &#8211; the titular Procuress &#8211; on the right. I left her out. Good riddance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5802-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5802-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5802-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5802-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5802.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thought I\u2019d try masking\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This kind of stalled, on the lute strings, <em>many<\/em> years ago. Anyway, now I\u2019m suddenly doing art again, I figured why not try n\u2019 finish it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5803-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5803-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5803-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5803-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5803.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Step one completed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I painted the strings in today. Kind of. They need separating into pairs, or \u2018courses\u2019 (I think?). And, the way I\u2019ve gone about it, they also need \u2018knocking back\u2019, and shadows need redoing, etc. So, there remains quite a ways to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully I\u2019ll do some or all of that tomorrow, when Flo\u2019s MOT forces me to stay home anyway. I\u2019m also expecting the deluxe new Taschen Baselitz tome to arrive in the morning\u2026 can\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this pencil drawing and unfinished oil painting, today. Behind another old artwork (an abstract print), in our lounge! The reason I call this The Absent Procuress is because in the original there\u2019s an old crone &#8211; the titular Procuress &#8211; on the right. I left her out. Good riddance! This kind of stalled, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ART: The (Absent) Procuress, Van Baburen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-77z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27387,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377\/revisions\/27387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}