{"id":21966,"date":"2024-07-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/?post_type=essay&#038;p=21966"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:25:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:25:58","slug":"cover-artist-blake-munch","status":"publish","type":"essay","link":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/essay\/cover-artist-blake-munch\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Artist: Blake Munch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Munch was born in New York in 1996. Growing up, his bedroom was next to his father\u2019s art studio, and Blake loved to spend time there. He was raised on a steady diet of Pollock, Picasso, Basquiat, Mozart, Beethoven, The Doors, Hendrix, and The Beatles. At the age of 9, his family moved to Tampa, FL, where he continued to hone his skills, and at 10 years old, he had his first solo art show and sold all 12 pieces. He went on to study art in college and won a scholarship. Since then, Blake has sold work internationally, created multiple book covers, and is currently represented by two global licensing companies<strong>.<\/strong> His goal is to beautify the world and leave a mark like Vincent, Basquiat, Monet, Bosch, Kahlo, Pollock, and all his mental mentors. Blake has been fortunate to have patrons and many collectors. He feels blessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sasee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BLAKE-MUNCH-PHOTO-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sasee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BLAKE-MUNCH-PHOTO-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sasee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BLAKE-MUNCH-PHOTO-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/sasee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BLAKE-MUNCH-PHOTO-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sasee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BLAKE-MUNCH-PHOTO-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/sasee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BLAKE-MUNCH-PHOTO.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Munch was born in New York in 1996. Growing up, his bedroom was next to his father\u2019s art studio, and Blake loved to spend time there. He was raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21968,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_gspb_post_css":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"essay_type":[49],"essay-category":[],"class_list":["post-21966","essay","type-essay","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","essay_type-cover-artist"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/essay\/21966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/essay"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/essay"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/essay\/21966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"essay_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/essay_type?post=21966"},{"taxonomy":"essay-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasee.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/essay-category?post=21966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}