{"id":1000,"date":"2007-03-13T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2007-03-13T06:30:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T13:30:20","slug":"commission-painting-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"COMMISSION PAINTING &#8211; PART ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely get commissions, I usually don&#8217;t like them, but the last few I have got were interesting enough for me to pursue. Former SF natives Jason and Shannon Raney asked me to do a painting of Hunter S. Thompson. Ironically I have been contemplating painting Gonzo &#8211; so I told them I would give it a shot. I have never really shared the creative process on my site, and I thought this project presented an opportunity for that. I will be updating you every couple of days on my progress. I am assuming the painting will probably take me about a month or so.<\/p>\n<p>Jason asked me to select a photo of Hunter. Though there are a lot of great photos of him, I felt this one is the best and most famous. After I found it on the internet, I pulled it into Photoshop and enlarged it a bit, contrasted it and smoothed it out. This is the photo I will work from.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image1087\" style=\"width: 464px; height: 343px\" height=\"343\" alt=\"hunt1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hunt1.jpg\" width=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely get commissions, I usually don&#8217;t like them, but the last few I have got were interesting enough for me to pursue. Former SF natives Jason and Shannon Raney asked me to do a painting of Hunter S. Thompson. Ironically I have been contemplating painting Gonzo &#8211; so I told them I would give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6,7,9,10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}