{"id":9279,"date":"2016-02-05T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2016-02-05T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:49:07","slug":"album-cover-art-for-maria-the-mexican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/album-cover-art-for-maria-the-mexican\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Cover Art for Maria The Mexican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12654363_10103391973929019_438590410476210873_n.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;fade_in&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>This is my second go &#8217;round doing cover art for band Maria The Mexican. I did art for their first album, Moon Colored Jade, for which I won the 2014 Independent Music Award for Album Art (read more about that here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=7820\">https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=7820<\/a>). They approached me again to do the art for South of the Border Moonlight with an &#8220;inspiration&#8221; photo of a couple of\u00a0mexican dancers&#8230; and this is what I came up with. The record will be released in Spring of 2016. The art below is the full piece. It&#8217;s all paper, cut with an x-acto knife, and all the colored parts were painted with acrylic paint.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mtmcoverfullwebsite.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;fade_in&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=&#8221;Sidebar&#8221; orientation=&#8221;right&#8221; area=&#8221;et_pb_widget_area_5&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; remove_border=&#8221;off&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my second go &#8217;round doing cover art for band Maria The Mexican. I did art for their first album, Moon Colored Jade, for which I won the 2014 Independent Music Award for Album Art (read more about that here:\u00a0https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=7820). They approached me again to do the art for South of the Border Moonlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cut-paper","category-design","category-new-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9282,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions\/9282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}