[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-step-mother-in-law-portrait":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/phen-6b0e56986d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMy father-in-law just remarried, and I needed to come up with a wedding gift now that they're back from Thailand. The two of them are very hard to shop for, so I painted a picture. But it was SO difficult; I was working from a bad flash photo taken in a restaurant, so I didn't have much to go by. And I didn't want to stylise it too much, because I wasn't sure she'd appreciate that. They've been together for eight years. She and I don't have much in common, but she's a lovely person and we get along very well. She's practically my age, which probably helps.\\r\n\\r\nHere's a good date for the diary if you're in London: Paul Gravett's launch party next Thurs, 6 March for \u003Cb>Manhua! China Comics Now!\u003C/b>. It's an exhibition he's curating for the China Now festival at the London College of Communications. See \u003Ca href=\"http://www.paulgravett.com\">Paul's website\u003C/a> for details. I'm sad I won't be able to go; I already booked a ticket for another event, but I'm not sure I made the best choice.","2008-02-29T22:38:00.000Z","step-mother-in-law-portrait",[],"step-mother-in-law portrait",1776628722441]