{"id":27395,"date":"2025-03-31T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27395"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:14:19","slug":"art-absent-procuress-luteny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27395","title":{"rendered":"ART: Absent Procuress, Luteny\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\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_5821-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5821-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5821-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5821-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5821.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Much fiddly work\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aeons after starting these (2014!), I\u2019ve finally painted the lute courses; seven pairs of double strings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not great, perhaps? But they\u2019ll have to do. Next I need to add the frets to the lute. And a bit of shadow, and\/or something of interest to the rather bare background.<\/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_5823-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5823-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5823-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5823-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5823.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hmmm!?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I\u2019ll go back to occasional copies of \u2018Old Masters\u2019, as a bit more of a regular thing. Good for skill building, and poss\u2019 saleable?<\/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\/11\/img_4388-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28835\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4388-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4388-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4388-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4388.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New Vermeer tome (atop a previous purchase).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FOOTNOTE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We went to a Topping Books author talk, last night (10\/11\/\u201825), given by Andrew Graham-Dixon, about Vermeer. I showed him this \u2018work in progress\u2019, and he informed (or is it reminded?) me that it appears in a couple of Vermeer\u2019s works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"763\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4392.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28836\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4392.jpg 763w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4392-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vermeer\u2019s <em>The Concert<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aeons after starting these (2014!), I\u2019ve finally painted the lute courses; seven pairs of double strings. Not great, perhaps? But they\u2019ll have to do. Next I need to add the frets to the lute. And a bit of shadow, and\/or something of interest to the rather bare background. I think I\u2019ll go back to occasional &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ART: Absent Procuress, Luteny\u2026&#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-77R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27395"}],"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=27395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28838,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27395\/revisions\/28838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}