{"id":18767,"date":"2022-10-28T20:29:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=18767"},"modified":"2022-11-05T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:40:24","slug":"sorrow-the-portrait-that-took-a-long-time-to-develop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=18767","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sorrow&#8217;: the portrait that took a long time to develop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October 28, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sometimes paintings need a long time to develop and this portrait is a good example. Based on many different women,  I entitled her &#8220;Sorrow&#8221;.  It was in the early stages, summer 2021, when we decided to convert my basement studio to a &#8216;delivery room&#8217; for our now resident feral cat Mitsy. I put the paint tubes away to make space and &#8216;Sorrow&#8217; stood on an easel, under a cloth. I almost forgot about her!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But recently she was calling me and I decided to take it to the finish line. The portrait follows the method of the old masters, that can produce fairly dark paintings and I kind of like that for certain facial expressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:14px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-4.22.36-PM-1024x749.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-4.22.36-PM-1024x749.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-4.22.36-PM-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-4.22.36-PM-768x562.png 768w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-4.22.36-PM-665x486.png 665w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-28-at-4.22.36-PM.png 1261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>&#8216;Sorrow&#8217; &#8211; acrylic on board, 20&#8243; x 24&#8243;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 28, 2022 Sometimes paintings need a long time to develop and this portrait is a good example. Based on many different women, I entitled her &#8220;Sorrow&#8221;. It was in the early stages, summer 2021, when we decided to convert my basement studio to a &#8216;delivery room&#8217; for our now resident feral cat Mitsy. I put the paint\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=18767\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2671],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-blog"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Nicky","author_link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?cat=2671\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Artist&#039;s Blog<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Artist&#039;s Blog<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 3 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on ","modified":"Updated on "},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on  ","modified":"Updated on  "},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18823,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions\/18823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}