{"id":1057,"date":"2018-01-02T19:53:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2018-01-05T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:22:56","slug":"pug-dog-portrait-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"pug dog portrait commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jellybean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1058\" src=\"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jellybean-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"jellybean\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jellybean-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jellybean-768x1056.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jellybean-745x1024.jpg 745w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jellybean.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jelly Bean&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>oil on panel<\/p>\n<p>12&#215;9 inches<\/p>\n<p>2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This portrait was a collaborative effort with the dog&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>owner to create a surprise gift for her husband in time for<\/p>\n<p>Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He is crazy about his little female pug dog!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the Fall,\u00a0\u00a0 she and I had done a photo shoot of Jelly Bean,<\/p>\n<p>inside and outside their lovely home in Magnolia.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But,<\/p>\n<p>as it turned out,\u00a0 Jelly Bean was in no mood to be photographed<\/p>\n<p>that day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 None of the two hundred images were worthy of<\/p>\n<p>transferring into a painting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The pug looked angry instead of<\/p>\n<p>her natural soulfulness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What to do? \u00a0\u00a0 Re-shoot? \u00a0\u00a0 We decided instead to use the<\/p>\n<p>adorable iPhone candid shot that her daughter had taken of Jelly<\/p>\n<p>Bean sometime earlier.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The photo was beautifully framed and<\/p>\n<p>had been placed in a prominent spot in their bedroom.\u00a0 We<\/p>\n<p>agreed I should borrow the photo in its frame to use for the<\/p>\n<p>painting. Thank goodness,\u00a0 her husband never noticed it was missing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What was the verdict Xmas morning?<\/p>\n<p>He loved it!!!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jelly Bean&#8221; oil on panel 12&#215;9 inches 2017 &nbsp; This portrait was a collaborative effort with the dog&#8217;s owner to create a surprise gift for her husband in time for Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He is crazy about his little female pug dog! &nbsp; Earlier in the Fall,\u00a0\u00a0 she and I had done a photo shoot of Jelly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1057\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pug dog portrait commission<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}