{"id":20062,"date":"2025-07-04T02:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=20062"},"modified":"2025-07-04T02:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:03:45","slug":"junior-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=20062","title":{"rendered":"Junior selfie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>July 3, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I love painting portraits. And this time, I decided to put the spotlight on myself. Having the luxury of choice, I picked a reference that depicts me in a posture that it still my habit when I am tired. But I no longer suck my thumb!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reference required some creative thinking, as it was a small black and white print I found in a photo album. It was probably taken at the end of a long photo session with my father. I look quite tired and ready to take a nap!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I checked out several colour pictures to find out what I looked like in colour! And this is the result&#8230; My hair as a toddler was a mixture of golden blond and white curls. Many children in The Netherlands start out with white hair, only to turn dark as they grow older. Mine is a darker raw sienna these days, that will go very blond when I live in bright sunlight for a longer time. But as a baby and toddler it had a definite strawberry and yellow tinge. And to add a little extra to the finished painting, I took one of the baby curls, that my mom has always held on to. Cute, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:34px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACR_Selfie_Child.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACR_Selfie_Child.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACR_Selfie_Child-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACR_Selfie_Child-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACR_Selfie_Child-665x498.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACR_Selfie_Child-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACR_Selfie_Child-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACR_Selfie_Child-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 3, 2025 I love painting portraits. And this time, I decided to put the spotlight on myself. Having the luxury of choice, I picked a reference that depicts me in a posture that it still my habit when I am tired. But I no longer suck my thumb! The reference required some creative thinking, as it was\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/?p=20062\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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-20062","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 9 months ago","modified":"Updated 9 months 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\/20062","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=20062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20065,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20062\/revisions\/20065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamnow.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}