{"id":1973,"date":"2011-09-20T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:51:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:51:31","slug":"sophie-blackall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/09\/20\/sophie-blackall\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Blackall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4056.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Sophie Blackall\" alt=\"Sophie Blackall\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/img2.etsystatic.com\/il_fullxfull.186735882.jpg\" width=\"440\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4054.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Sophie Blackall\" alt=\"Sophie Blackall\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4055.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Sophie Blackall\" alt=\"Sophie Blackall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophieblackall.com\/\">Sophie Blackall&#8217;s<\/a> work \u2013\u00a0especially the expressions on her subject&#8217;s faces and the way she could illustrate emotions with their eyes and lips. I was reminded of her work when I was critiquing a student&#8217;s work (for our <a href=\"http:\/\/camp.pikaland.com\/classes\/pikaland-artist-bootcamp-making-your-mark\">Making Your Mark<\/a> class) and just discovered that she just came out with her first book for adults! Titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0761163581\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=pikaland-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=217145&#38;creative=399373&#38;creativeASIN=0761163581\">Missed Connections<\/a> the book is about love and I&#8217;m sure it will be amazing, given the few samples that she already has up on her <a href=\"http:\/\/missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a> (you can also buy prints from the book via her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/SophieBlackall\">Etsy shop<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>From her publisher, Workman Publishing:<br \/>\n<em>Missed Connections is a collection of illustrated love stories. There\u2019s \u201cWe Shared a Bear Suit.\u201d \u201cIf Not for Your Noisy Tambourine.\u201d \u201cHairy Bearded Swimmer.\u201d Each is told in the shorthand of a \u201cmissed connection,\u201d and then illustrated in Chinese ink and watercolor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I look forward seeing the expression of her characters in the book, and hearing about all those missed connections. I have a silly little obsession about these things. (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307382648\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=pikaland-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=217145&#38;creative=399369&#38;creativeASIN=0307382648\">another book<\/a> that I love.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Sophie Blackall\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/09\/20\/sophie-blackall\/\" aria-label=\"More on Sophie Blackall\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31679,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/31679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}