{"id":4626,"date":"2012-06-23T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2012-06-23T15:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T22:08:05","slug":"amerigo-meg-bianchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/amerigo-meg-bianchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Amerigo &#8220;Meg&#8221; Bianchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/poppy_drawing_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4627\" title=\"poppy_drawing_small\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/poppy_drawing_small-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/poppy_drawing_small-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/poppy_drawing_small.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In New York for the memorial of Julia&#8217;s grandfather, Meg. \u00a0I find if you&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about someone, it&#8217;s easier to draw them well. Portraiture is about saturation, I guess, the more you soak up the more there is to wring back out. \u00a0And I&#8217;ve been hearing a million stories from his long and rich life.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody (John Singer Sargent?) said something like &#8220;a portrait is a picture in which there is something wrong with the mouth.&#8221; \u00a0I remembered that half way through drawing this, so decided to put more effort into his mouth, which was to me the most expressive part of his face. \u00a0But now I&#8217;m just talking shop. \u00a0Rest in peace, Poppy.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In New York for the memorial of Julia&#8217;s grandfather, Meg. \u00a0I find if you&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about someone, it&#8217;s easier to draw them well. Portraiture is about saturation, I guess, the more you soak up the more there is to wring back out. \u00a0And I&#8217;ve been hearing a million stories from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-drawings","category-na","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4633,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}