{"id":533,"date":"2007-04-13T22:51:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T05:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=533"},"modified":"2016-10-12T06:53:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:53:03","slug":"geoff-hunt-master-painter-and-obrian-cover-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/geoff-hunt-master-painter-and-obrian-cover-artist","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Hunt, Master Painter and O&#8217;Brian Cover Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s cover artist is Geoff Hunt, the master painter behind Patrick O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/039306011X\/nickslists-20\">Aubrey-Maturin nautical series<\/a>. Take a look at the following two covers for a good example of how much impact a cover can make. The image on the left is from the first edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393307050\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Master and Commander<\/span><\/a>, and the second image is Geoff Hunt&#8217;s painting for the same book:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-534 size-full\" title=\"bookcovers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-7.png\" alt=\"Master and Commander book covers\" width=\"398\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-7.png 398w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-7-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To me there is no comparison. I&#8217;m no art critic, but I know what I like. And I love Geoff Hunt&#8217;s covers. Hunt painted the covers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/039306011X\/nickslists-20\">all twenty-one books in the series<\/a>, and I think they capture the flavor of the books perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about Hunt&#8217;s work, the following links may be helpful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many of his paintings are collected in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0939511002\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There is also a dvd of his life and works called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006I681Q\/nickslists-20\">Geoff Hunt: Portrait of a Marine Artist<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26keywords%3Dgeoff%2520hunt%26rh%3Di%253Aaps%252Ck%253Ageoff%2520hunt%252Ci%253Agarden&amp;tag=nickslists-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Geoff Hunt prints at Amazon.com<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=nickslists-20&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s cover artist is Geoff Hunt, the master painter behind Patrick O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s Aubrey-Maturin nautical series. Take a look at the following two covers for a good example of how much impact a cover can make. The image on the left is from the first edition of Master and Commander, and the second image is Geoff Hunt&#8217;s painting for the same book: To me there is no comparison. I&#8217;m no art critic, but I know what I like. And I love Geoff Hunt&#8217;s covers. Hunt painted the covers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[237,5],"tags":[124,248,238,123],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-books","tag-aubreymaturin-series","tag-book-covers","tag-geoff-hunt","tag-patrick-obrian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-7.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-8B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}