{"id":3265,"date":"2012-12-27T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:13","slug":"sarah-mcneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/27\/sarah-mcneil\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Sarah McNeil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/poisontears_sarahmcneil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3274\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/27\/sarah-mcneil\/poisontears_sarahmcneil\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/poisontears_sarahmcneil.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,835\" 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=\"poisontears_sarahmcneil\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/poisontears_sarahmcneil-215x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/poisontears_sarahmcneil.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3274\" alt=\"poisontears_sarahmcneil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/poisontears_sarahmcneil.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/poisontears_sarahmcneil.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/poisontears_sarahmcneil-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.400pencils.com\/24649\/illustrations\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah McNeil<\/a> illustrates portraits in such a delicate manner, softly painting in pigments with flourishes of color to accentuate cheeks, collars and rainbows beaming from pockets. What I love most are her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/SarahMcNeil?section_id=12417929\" target=\"_blank\">pet portraits<\/a>; someday, we&#8217;ll honor our little Lima and Peru with a custom characterization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3281\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/27\/sarah-mcneil\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1438,800\" 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=\"catarticfox_sarahmcneil\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil-300x166.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil-1024x569.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3281\" alt=\"catarticfox_sarahmcneil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil-1024x569.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/catarticfox_sarahmcneil.jpg 1438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3282\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/27\/sarah-mcneil\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1210,800\" 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=\"tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil-300x198.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil-1024x677.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3282\" alt=\"tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil-1024x677.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tattoosweaterbruno2_sarahmcneil.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah McNeil illustrates portraits in such a delicate manner, softly painting in pigments with flourishes of color to accentuate cheeks, collars and rainbows beaming from pockets. What I love most are her pet portraits; someday, we&#8217;ll honor our little Lima and Peru with a custom characterization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,146],"tags":[37,125,1869,1872,548,547],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-illustration","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-etsy","tag-illustration","tag-pet-portrait","tag-sarah-mcneil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-QF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5373,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/sarah-burwash\/","url_meta":{"origin":3265,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Sarah Burwash","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"April 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The illustration work of Sarah Burwash makes me so happy. 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