{"id":10565,"date":"2025-11-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:51:39","slug":"my-secret-october-cover-art-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/my-secret-october-cover-art-project\/","title":{"rendered":"My Secret October Cover Art Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"patreon-campaign-banner\"><div class=\"patreon-patron-button-wrapper\"><div class=\"patreon-text-over-button\">To view this content, you must be a member of <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/PLUGOarts?utm_source=https%3A%2F%2Fplugoarts.com%2Fblog%2Fmy-secret-october-cover-art-project%2F&utm_medium=patreon_wordpress_plugin&utm_campaign=5573905&utm_term=&utm_content=creator_profile_link_in_text_over_interface\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick's Patreon<\/a> at $3 <\/b> or more<\/div><div class=\"patreon-universal-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/patreon-flow\/?patreon-unlock-post=10565\"><div class=\"patreon-responsive-button-wrapper\"><div class=\"patreon-responsive-button\"><img class=\"patreon_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/patreon-connect\/assets\/img\/patreon-logomark-on-coral.svg\" alt=\"Unlock with Patreon\" \/> Unlock with Patreon<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"patreon-text-under-button\">Already a qualifying Patreon member? <a href=\"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/patreon-flow\/?patreon-login=yes&patreon-final-redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fplugoarts.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F10565\" rel=\"nofollow\">Refresh<\/a> to access this content.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A behind the scenes look at my latest Cover Art My commission -FREAKWOOD album art for reed quintet Edmund Welles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"subscribers","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":true,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,287,131],"tags":[150,245,14,166],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustration","category-patreon","category-projects","tag-blog","tag-cover-art","tag-illustration-2","tag-process"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FW_mosaic-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1416&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3egHU-2Kp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4484,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/fbf-with-the-eargoggle\/","url_meta":{"origin":10565,"position":0},"title":"FBF with The Eargoggle","author":"PLUGO","date":"February 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Just last summer I had good fortune of working with the extremely talented musician Ezra Gale. 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