{"id":29138,"date":"2025-03-15T21:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29138"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:23:42","slug":"business-opportunity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29138","title":{"rendered":"Business comes knockin&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-Studio-Tour-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-Studio-Tour-2-copy.jpg 695w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-Studio-Tour-2-copy-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1003a709bc48e12af780100cc4423a51\">The illustrious and ever-ambitious&nbsp;<strong>Court Painter Studio Enterprise<\/strong>, that grand bastion of artistic excellence and political portraiture, stands ever-vigilant in its quest to expand its esteemed clientele among the high and mighty! And lo! With the dawn of a new prime ministerial era in the Great Dominion, the studio found itself in a fevered state of&nbsp;<strong>prime sales fervor<\/strong>, eager to ensnare yet another figure of power within its gilded frames of immortalized grandeur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Court-Painter-in-studio.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Court-Painter-in-studio.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Court-Painter-in-studio-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Court-Painter-in-studio-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Court-Painter-Flower-Painter-in-studio.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Court-Painter-Flower-Painter-in-studio.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Court-Painter-Flower-Painter-in-studio-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Court-Painter-Flower-Painter-in-studio-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Court Painter in studio settings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4504491839650ccffb6bde511a345132\">Thus, with all the pomp and ceremony befitting such a momentous occasion, the&nbsp;<strong>distinguished Prime Minister Carney<\/strong> was granted an&nbsp;<strong>exclusive, behind-the-velvet-curtain tour<\/strong>&nbsp;of the hallowed studio where artistic alchemy transpires! He beheld the sacred chambers where masterstrokes are conjured with divine inspiration, where pigments are swirled in an exquisite ballet of color, and where the maestro\u2019s brush dances across the canvas with breathtaking virtuosity. The tour included a masterful self portrait demonstration of&nbsp;<strong>the delicate art of color mixing, the enrapturing spectacle of deft brushwork, and\u2014most crucial of all\u2014the sacred rituals of proper portrait-viewing etiquette<\/strong>, ensuring that each stroke is admired from the most flattering and reverential vantage point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-tour-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-tour-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-tour-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-tour-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-tour.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-50c7f0f6469d50717d107651e695df52\">The culmination of the tour included Court Painter surprising the newly minted PM with <strong>a souvenir portrait <\/strong>that he could hang in his residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-PM-Carney-souvenir.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29148\" style=\"width:557px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-PM-Carney-souvenir.jpg 557w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-PM-Carney-souvenir-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 85vw, 557px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Court Painter in portrait painting mode<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-PM-tour--1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-PM-tour--1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-PM-tour--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-PM-tour--768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Court-Painter-studio-PM-tour-.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0d46d7967b00b1d8004c700176d06b89\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And thus, the Prime Minister, visibly moved and brimming with admiration, took his leave\u2014but not before bestowing upon the Court Painter the ultimate token of intrigue and promise:<strong> his calling card.<\/strong> A silent whisper of future commissions and a burgeoning reputation lay within that simple yet potent gesture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The illustrious and ever-ambitious&nbsp;Court Painter Studio Enterprise, that grand bastion of artistic excellence and political portraiture, stands ever-vigilant in its quest to expand its esteemed clientele among the high and mighty! And lo! With the dawn of a new prime ministerial era in the Great Dominion, the studio found itself in a fevered state of&nbsp;prime &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Business comes knockin&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29138"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29156,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138\/revisions\/29156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}