{"id":13682,"date":"2020-10-30T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T17:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/?p=13682"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:09:51","slug":"where-inspiration-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/where-inspiration-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Inspiration Comes From"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Often the inspiration for my portraits comes from art books or online research.  Sometimes it comes from a shared mood board.  Tristan in an artist and an equestrian.  This portrait came together from our mood board.  He was drawn to this painting by Henri Latour called &#8220;Portrait of Leon Maitre&#8221; from 1886.  I had been researching work by photographer Edward Weston for another project when I came across this mid-1800s etching of a different Edward (Payson) Weston called \u201cThe Pedestrian\u201d (artist unknown). I like this antique style, so I added it to our mood board.  I drew elements from both the painting and the etching, and we incorporated Tristan\u2019s wonderfully stoic gaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"718\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-718x720.jpg\" alt=\"Collage of three works:  Maundy Mitchell's photograph, &quot;Portrait of Tristan in Riding Gear,&quot; a painting by Henri Latour, &quot;Portrait of Leon Maitre,&quot; and an etching of Edward Payson Weston called &quot;The Pedestrian&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-13683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-718x720.jpg 718w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-1021x1024.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-1532x1536.jpg 1532w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108-2042x2048.jpg 2042w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Portrait-of-Tristan-in-Equestrian-Clothing-plus-the-Inspiration-for-the-Portrait_0108.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often the inspiration for my portraits comes from art books or online research. Sometimes it comes from a shared mood board. Tristan in an artist and an equestrian. This portrait came together from our mood board. He was drawn to this painting by Henri Latour called &#8220;Portrait of Leon Maitre&#8221; from 1886. I had been<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/where-inspiration-comes-from\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-portraits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21432,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13682\/revisions\/21432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}