{"id":708,"date":"2006-10-23T20:56:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T00:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2008-12-20T20:59:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T00:59:34","slug":"genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/23\/genius\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Genius Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s big-deal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=91117\">Stranger Genius Awards<\/a> ceremony\/party was at the Henry Art Museum last Saturday night, and I was commissioned to paint gigantic portraits of the winners. Now I can say I showed my artwork at the Henry! Sort of. In any case, I painted the 4&#8242; x 4&#8242; portraits at brilliant illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynrathke.com\">Kathryn Rathke<\/a>&#8216;s Beacon Hill house, and for a week and a half became &#8220;the lady in the basement.&#8221; Her husband, Barry, would occasionally descend to hand me a SPECTACULAR cocktail, complete with garnish.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Lead Pencil Studio portrait on the wall right after I finished it, and the lot of them in situ, with Kathryn pondering and toasting them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image79\" alt=\"lpsstudiolorez.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/lpsstudiolorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image78\" alt=\"lpsportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/lpsportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image72\" alt=\"jzportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/jzportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jlportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" id=\"image76\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/jlportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image74\" alt=\"jrportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/jrportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"238\" height=\"360\" id=\"image77\" alt=\"otbportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/otbportraitathenrylorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s big-deal Stranger Genius Awards ceremony\/party was at the Henry Art Museum last Saturday night, and I was commissioned to paint gigantic portraits of the winners. Now I can say I showed my artwork at the Henry! Sort of. In any case, I painted the 4&#8242; x 4&#8242; portraits at brilliant illustrator Kathryn Rathke&#8216;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/23\/genius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What a Genius Looks Like&#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-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}