{"id":3405,"date":"2014-05-15T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2014-05-15T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:57:31","slug":"jason-chin-on-gravity-and-temperamental-gouache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"Jason Chin: On Gravity and Temperamental Gouache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/jason chin.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">These paintings were done in watercolor and gouache, and let me tell you gouache can be really frustrating. It was really temperamental, and to be honest, when I handed in the book, I swore I\u2019d never use it again. Of course, for my next book I pulled out the gouache and used it again.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to Jason Chin, pictured here, about his newest picture book, <em>Gravity<\/em> (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook, April 2014). That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/out-world\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll have some art from the book, as well as some of the rejected endings that Jason talks about in the piece. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Jason Chin by Deirdre Gill and used with permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;These paintings were done in watercolor and gouache, and let me tell you gouache can be really frustrating. It was really temperamental, and to be honest, when I handed in the book, I swore I\u2019d never use it again. Of course, for my next book I pulled out the gouache and used it again.\u201d * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}