{"id":8473,"date":"2015-04-24T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2015-04-24T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:06:43","slug":"whats-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/whats-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Up In My Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>Inside My Studio<\/h4>\n
This is what my creative work week looks like at a glance:<\/h5>\n

A lot of behind the scenes work is going on at the moment. As many of you are aware, my first YA novel Queen of the Godforsaken<\/em> will be published this fall 2015 by Thistledown Press. I’m giving my five cents on the cover design options. As an artist, I am grateful for any input on the cover design. Any time visual aesthetics are involved, I am passionate and committed to achieving the best image possible. I am excited to see what the final result of cover design will be!<\/p>\n

I am also working on a few other projects (slowing making their way through the creative system). In the mornings I continue to paint the illustrations for my first picture book: A Pug Named Pru<\/em>. This is slow going as I am painting little by little early in the day and then I write in the afternoons\u2014editing another novel.<\/p>\n

I hope things speed up on the painting front\u2014I admit, sometimes digital painting slows the creative process down to a crawl. On occasion, technology glitches take me hours to solve. I get frustrated and think, if this were paint and a brush on canvas, I’d have wrapped this up yesterday<\/em>! However, I soldier on, believing that in the end, somehow, digital painting will prove to be faster than traditional painting (that and I cannot bare to subject myself to all the toxic oil painting chemicals ever again).<\/p>\n

* The illustration is of the protagonist (and pug) Pru, attempting to be fierce. It is unfinished. The book is set in the 1970s. I am having fun researching all the groovy textiles from the seventies era.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inside My Studio This is what my creative work week looks like at a glance: A lot of behind the scenes work is going on at the moment. As many of you are aware, my first YA novel Queen of … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2797,2392,2395,2300],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts","tag-childrens-book-illustration","tag-digital-painting","tag-mix-hart-artist","tag-mix-hart-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t