{"id":4447,"date":"2013-02-20T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:28:42","slug":"shawn-huckins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/20\/shawn-huckins\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Shawn Huckins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oomgadddd-shawnhuckins\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Shawn Huckins<\/a> has created just a priceless series of work by combining classic portrait paintings overlapped by Twitter tweets<\/a><\/em> and texts<\/em><\/a>. Each piece is more hilarious than the last. I have to admit, I’m not a frequent user of texting acronyms, so I’m happy Shawn spells everything out in his titles.\"srrry2-shawnhuckins\"<\/a> \"lol-shawnhuckins\"<\/a> \"swag-shawnhuckins\"<\/a> \"wdyt-shawnhuckins\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn Huckins has created just a priceless series of work by combining classic portrait paintings overlapped by Twitter tweets and texts. Each piece is more hilarious than the last. I have to admit, I’m not a frequent user of texting acronyms, so I’m happy Shawn spells everything out in his titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[37,125,1868,711,712,713],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-painting","tag-shawn-huckins","tag-tweet","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-19J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5167,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/swell-things-no-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":4447,"position":0},"title":"Swell Things No. 3","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"March 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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