{"id":4089,"date":"2012-05-17T22:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2012-05-17T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T02:24:21","slug":"commission-portraitcommission-of-george-melly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4089","title":{"rendered":"Commission: Portrait\/Commission of George Melly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a commission I recently completed of English Jazz singer and writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Melly\" target=\"_blank\">George Melly<\/a>. Likenesses are always a bit of a struggle for me, and this one was no exception. I&#8217;m pretty happy with the inking and toning of this piece, though for sure. It&#8217;s headed off to its new home in Cambridge soon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/George-Melly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4090\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/George-Melly.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"650,747\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"George-Melly\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/George-Melly-261x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/George-Melly.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4090\" title=\"George-Melly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/George-Melly-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/George-Melly-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/George-Melly.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;re a few pics of Melly:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/melly_pics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4091\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4091\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/melly_pics.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,335\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"melly_pics\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/melly_pics-300x100.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/melly_pics.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4091\" title=\"melly_pics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/melly_pics-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/melly_pics-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/05\/melly_pics.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a commission I recently completed of English Jazz singer and writer George Melly. Likenesses are always a bit of a struggle for me, and this one was no exception. I&#8217;m pretty happy with the inking and toning of this piece, though for sure. It&#8217;s headed off to its new home in Cambridge soon! 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