{"id":4783,"date":"2016-05-16T18:44:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2016-06-12T23:48:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T13:48:48","slug":"some-montmaravian-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/some-montmaravian-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Montmaravian Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How amazing is this artwork? It was created by Noah Hayes, who&#8217;s studying art and design at college. Noah created some art based on <em>The Montmaray Journals<\/em> for his visual development class and I first became aware of it when I saw these great book cover designs:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Montmaray-cover-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"&#039;Montmaray book cover&#039; by Noah Hayes\" title=\"&#039;Montmaray book cover&#039; by Noah Hayes\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Montmaray-cover-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Montmaray-cover.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Exile-cover-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"&#039;FitzOsbornes in Exile book cover&#039; by Noah Hayes\" title=\"&#039;FitzOsbornes in Exile book cover&#039; by Noah Hayes\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Exile-cover-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Exile-cover.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/War-cover-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"&#039;FitzOsbornes at War book cover&#039; by Noah Hayes\" title=\"&#039;FitzOsbornes at War book cover&#039; by Noah Hayes\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/War-cover-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/War-cover.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then Noah did a whole lot of work developing character studies. Here&#8217;s Sophie:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Sophie-300x195.png\" alt=\"&#039;Sophie character study&#039; by Noah Hayes\" title=\"&#039;Sophie character study&#039; by Noah Hayes\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Sophie-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Sophie.png 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plus, there&#8217;s a huge storyboard for the scenes following the funeral in <em>A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em>. Here&#8217;s Veronica and Sophie discussing events:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Veronica-and-Sophie.tiff\" alt=\"&#039;Veronica and Sophie&#039; by Noah Hayes\" title=\"&#039;Veronica and Sophie&#039; by Noah Hayes\" width=\"400\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4793\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And Simon and Toby looking shifty-eyed after Sophie tracks them down:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Simon-and-Toby.tiff\" alt=\"&#039;Simon and Toby&#039; by Noah Hayes\" title=\"&#039;Simon and Toby&#039; by Noah Hayes\" width=\"400\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4794\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleinnocence.tumblr.com\/post\/140261245101\" target=\"_blank\">here at Noah&#8217;s tumblr<\/a> (click on the Tumblr image to enlarge it).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a wonderfully evocative depiction of Montmaray Castle:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/montmaray-castle.tiff\" alt=\"Montmaray Castle by Noah Hayes\" title=\"Montmaray Castle by Noah Hayes\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4787\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I think this might be my favourite \u2013 some sketches of Henry and Toby. Look how happy Henry is!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Toby-and-Henry.tiff\" alt=\"&#039;Toby and Henry&#039; by Noah Hayes\" title=\"&#039;Toby and Henry&#039; by Noah Hayes\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4795\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Noah for allowing me to share these images. You can find them all at <a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleinnocence.tumblr.com\/tagged\/the-montmaray-journals\" target=\"_blank\">Noah&#8217;s Tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How amazing is this artwork? It was created by Noah Hayes, who&#8217;s studying art and design at college. Noah created some art based on The Montmaray Journals for his visual development class and I first became aware of it when I saw these great book cover designs: And then Noah did a whole lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/some-montmaravian-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Montmaravian Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-montmaray-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4860,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}