{"id":616,"date":"2012-04-05T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2012-04-05T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:00:15","slug":"mary-magdalene-at-the-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Mary Magdalene at the Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Glenmary Easter appeal was very difficult. \u00a0When they called to commission me for the painting, they said they were thinking of an image of the risen Jesus and Mary Magdalene at the tomb. \u00a0I responded with, &#8220;Um, you do know that I don&#8217;t do people well.&#8221; \u00a0Not only was I anxious about doing people, I was also anxious about painting Jesus because everyone has their own conception of what he looked like. \u00a0Glenmary (very kindly) replied that they had liked the people I had painted for them in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=24\">paintings past<\/a>, and wanted me to give it a shot&#8230;oh, and also include an olive tree and other foliage with the tomb.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly enough, they were really happy with the first draft I sent them and only had a few refinements. \u00a0This painting, what I feel is the most complicated piece I&#8217;ve done for them, had fewer revisions than any other painting that I had done. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=549\">Wisemen painting<\/a> alone went through something like six revisions!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=617\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-617\" title=\"Mary Magdalene at the Tomb \" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mmattomb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mmattomb.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mmattomb-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Glenmary Easter appeal was very difficult. \u00a0When they called to commission me for the painting, they said they were thinking of an image of the risen Jesus and Mary Magdalene at the tomb. \u00a0I responded with, &#8220;Um, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,33,97,127,159,242,297,378],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}