{"id":601,"date":"2020-02-24T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corygami.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2020-07-19T03:20:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:20:31","slug":"cheese-portrait-from-a-class-at-the-free-library-taught-by-mike-geno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Cheese Portrait from a Class at the Free Library Taught by Mike Geno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been following the work of Mike Geno for several years-even though he\u2019s known for food portraits, I had a print of Geno\u2019s Pope Benedict XVI wearing a Phillies jacket hanging in my bathroom for years. When I saw he was having a painting workshop at the Free Library\u2019s Culinary Literacy Center, Michael and I signed up right away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I haven\u2019t developed any real painting technique, and had been looking to do one of those fun \u201cpainting with a twist\u201d things. This was a very upgraded version of that-a professional artist setting you up for success to paint your own painting with his advice and direction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The class was held in an upper level of the Parkway Central Library , which has a ton of natural light. Various cheese \u201cmodels\u201d were distributed around the tables. I was lucky to get one with bleu veining. We were fed cheese throughout class, and there was also a fancy wine pairing component. I was too into the painting to pay attention to anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/corygami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_6038-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corygami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_6038-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/corygami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_6038-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/corygami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_6038-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/corygami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_6092-577x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-419\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' heateor-sss-data-href='https:\/\/corygami.com\/?p=601'><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" >Share this post:<\/div><ul class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><li class=\"heateorSssSharingRound\"><i style=\"width:35px;height:35px;border-radius:999px;\" alt=\"Twitter\" Title=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateorSssSharing heateorSssTwitterBackground\" onclick='heateorSssPopup(\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Cheese%20Portrait%20from%20a%20Class%20at%20the%20Free%20Library%20Taught%20by%20Mike%20Geno&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcorygami.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F601\")'><ss style=\"display:block;border-radius:999px;\" class=\"heateorSssSharingSvg heateorSssTwitterSvg\"><\/ss><\/i><\/li><li class=\"heateorSssSharingRound\"><i style=\"width:35px;height:35px;border-radius:999px;\" alt=\"Instagram\" Title=\"Instagram\" class=\"heateorSssSharing heateorSssInstagramBackground\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/corygami\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><ss style=\"display:block;border-radius:999px;\" class=\"heateorSssSharingSvg heateorSssInstagramSvg\"><\/ss><\/a><\/i><\/li><li class=\"heateorSssSharingRound\"><i style=\"width:35px;height:35px;border-radius:999px;\" alt=\"Pinterest\" Title=\"Pinterest\" class=\"heateorSssSharing heateorSssPinterestBackground\" onclick=\"javascript:void( (function() {var e=document.createElement('script' );e.setAttribute('type','text\/javascript' );e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8' );e.setAttribute('src','\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());\"><ss style=\"display:block;border-radius:999px;\" class=\"heateorSssSharingSvg heateorSssPinterestSvg\"><\/ss><\/i><\/li><li class=\"heateorSssSharingRound\"><i style=\"width:35px;height:35px;border-radius:999px;\" alt=\"Facebook\" Title=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateorSssSharing heateorSssFacebookBackground\" onclick='heateorSssPopup(\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcorygami.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F601\")'><ss style=\"display:block;border-radius:999px;\" class=\"heateorSssSharingSvg heateorSssFacebookSvg\"><\/ss><\/i><\/li><li class=\"heateorSssSharingRound\"><i style=\"width:35px;height:35px;border-radius:999px;\" alt=\"Reddit\" Title=\"Reddit\" class=\"heateorSssSharing heateorSssRedditBackground\" onclick='heateorSssPopup(\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcorygami.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F601&title=Cheese%20Portrait%20from%20a%20Class%20at%20the%20Free%20Library%20Taught%20by%20Mike%20Geno\")'><ss style=\"display:block;border-radius:999px;\" class=\"heateorSssSharingSvg heateorSssRedditSvg\"><\/ss><\/i><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"heateorSssClear\"><\/div><\/div><div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><p>I\u2019ve been following the work of Mike Geno for several years-even though he\u2019s known for food portraits, I had a print of Geno\u2019s Pope Benedict XVI wearing a Phillies jacket hanging in my bathroom for years. When I saw he was having a painting workshop at the Free Library\u2019s Culinary Literacy Center, Michael and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[19,20,17],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-painting","tag-class","tag-food","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corygami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}