{"id":658247,"date":"2026-10-27T04:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658247\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T04:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:40:13","slug":"drawing-with-absurdly-long-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658247\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing with Absurdly Long Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p id=\"f8ea1e_4071\" data-ic-marker=\"c04a9e_6226\">Scenic artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nikolay_laukhin\/\" style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolay Laukhin<\/a> creates large-scale backdrops for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. And I mean seriously large-scale:<\/p>\n<p id=\"fce62e_5184\" data-ic-marker=\"e1ddc7_5043\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1854989_81_145727_INHPg2O3l.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"aea3e0_6145\" data-ic-marker=\"12bf84_3881\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-image-width=\"880\" data-image-height=\"880\" data-image-id=\"1854987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1854987_81_145727_OFqbbOHrw.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"5ca318_5766\" data-ic-marker=\"e97795_2286\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1854986_81_145727_HlUolLPVh.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p id=\"40a537_9535\" data-ic-marker=\"ac45eb_1049\">You might wonder how many levels of scaffolds he has to erect in order to paint one of those pieces. The answer is, none. Here&#8217;s how he and his team do the work:<\/p>\n<p id=\"542b6f_960\" data-ic-marker=\"598e5e_1479\">I remember a Foundation Year exercise where they had us draw with a pencil on a stick, but it wasn&#8217;t that long!<\/p>\n<p id=\"171996_405\" data-ic-marker=\"4539ce_6261\">Laukhin&#8217;s got lots of behind-the-scenes footage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nikolay_laukhin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Scenic artist Nikolay Laukhin creates large-scale backdrops for the Mariinsky Theater in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-658247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}