{"id":260,"date":"2007-05-20T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/cocktail-napkin-portraits-at-the-henry\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T03:25:18","slug":"cocktail-napkin-portraits-at-the-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/cocktail-napkin-portraits-at-the-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocktail Napkin Portraits at the Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryart.org\/\">Henry Art Gallery<\/a> threw their big annual benefit bash this past Friday night. Costumes, stage shows, cocktails, and mega ART. Massive party. Space-themed, so lots of silver, lots of deely-bobbers, a number of laser guns.<\/p>\n<p>I sat at the end of the bar and drew cocktail napkin portraits. I *intended* to take breaks but by the time I was getting tired, the line was enormous and all I could do was tell the last person to turn everyone else away. It still took me the rest of the party to finish the line. I asked one of the last people how long she&#8217;d been waiting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, you&#8217;re kidding, really, how long?<\/p>\n<p>She nodded. &#8220;Two hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her boyfriend cut in. &#8220;Well. An hour and a half, hour forty-five.&#8221; For me to draw her face on a napkin. (Can I just pause here a moment??)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the evening &#8211; drawing Julie&#8217;s portrait (happy anniversary, Julie and Christian!!):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rebeccabolte1.jpg\" id=\"image261\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/rebeccabolte1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rebeccabolte2.jpg\" id=\"image262\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/rebeccabolte2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sean poses x2:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"henry1.jpg\" id=\"image258\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/henry1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"henry2.jpg\" id=\"image259\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/henry2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(photos by Kelley McIntyre)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Henry Art Gallery threw their big annual benefit bash this past Friday night. Costumes, stage shows, cocktails, and mega ART. Massive party. Space-themed, so lots of silver, lots of deely-bobbers, a number of laser guns. I sat at the end of the bar and drew cocktail napkin portraits. I *intended* to take breaks but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/cocktail-napkin-portraits-at-the-henry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cocktail Napkin Portraits at the Henry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}