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For this week’s blog post, I thought I would share something I’ve never done before, done for something I’ve never done before. As I mentioned last week, and as most of you would know anyway, I’m getting married at the end of the month. Megan and I want it to be more like a party with our friends and family then a big, formal wedding, but she also wants a few fancier things that I, as the dude, would never have thought of. One of is\u00a0a little “program book,” and so she asked me to paint a picture of the venue–Casa Feliz–to use as the front.<\/p>\n
This is done in mostly watercolors, a medium I don’t normally use since watercolors tend to just do whatever they want no matter what you had in mind. But since I’m not all that nervous about the ceremony and everything, I figured might as well scare the crap out of myself on a\u00a0piece that\u00a0would take many, many more hours to re-do if I goofed it up.<\/p>\n
That’s where the word “mostly” comes in. I was pretty pleased\u00a0with how the watercolors came out but still felt it needed “something” in a few spots, so I whipped out the acrylic and did a few touch-ups. I’m surprisingly happy with the results, but most importantly Megan is happy with how it turned out, so I’ll count that as a win…<\/p>\n
Other than finishing this piece, it’s been a bit of a quiet week as far as finishing work, but great in getting new assignments. I’ve got 5 more book covers to work on this month, and a really cool story for an upcoming issue of Flare<\/em> for Heroic Publishing, as well as The<\/em> Last Alexandrian<\/em> and Perfect Storm<\/em> to continue on. I feel Gary and I may be having a small PS<\/em> story conference on that towards the end of the month… Outside of work, I like season 5 of Homeland<\/em> even less during the second viewing (although Megan likes it better\u00a0the second time around), but we have started Making a Murderer<\/em> on Netflix which has been amazing. We are on episode 8 so if anyone posts spoilers in the comments section you are so, so blocked…<\/p>\n Lastly, I am writing this on Thursday because we are going away on Friday. Megan has an assignment for her magazine to try out a road trip destination from Sarasota so we are going to the Greyfield Inn for a few days, then back to Jacksonville to go to a book signing by Brad Meltzer! Should be a great trip, which I will tell you all about next week.<\/p>\n Take care all!<\/p>\n Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this week’s blog post, I thought I would share something I’ve never done before, done for something I’ve never done before. As I mentioned last week, and as most of you would know anyway, I’m getting married at the end of the month. Megan and I want it to be more like a party with our friends and family then a big, formal wedding, but she also wants a few fancier things that I, as the dude, would never have thought of. One of is\u00a0a little “program book,” and so she asked me to paint a picture of the venue–Casa Feliz–to use as the front. This is done in mostly watercolors, a medium I don’t normally use since watercolors tend to just do whatever they want no matter what you had in mind. But since I’m not all that nervous about the ceremony and everything, I figured might as well scare the crap out of myself on a\u00a0piece that\u00a0would take many, many more hours to re-do if I goofed it up. That’s where the word “mostly” comes in. I was pretty pleased\u00a0with how the watercolors came out but still felt it needed “something” in a few spots, so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectstormpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}