I'm almost finished the book. I'm half way through my second last painting. I have one more to do after that, something for the title page, but I haven't figured out exactly what I'm doing yet. I don't want to just duplicate the cover. I'm thinking something simple...
I took some photos of the cover at different stages of completion. Here's some of my process:
I have a few more process pics from some other paintings for this book project but I'll have to post those later as that's all the time I have for now.
2 comments:
I'm glad that you posted the process that you use and I have a few questions. Do you start with ink or black paint to darken your pencils? And I noticed that you put in what seems to me to be newspaper clippings, like a collage type thing. But, on my monitor it seems like it was painted over. Any reason for this?
I started with ink. And although I had put down some newspaper I did end up painting over it. I love the texture of newsprint but it's very time consuming. Initially I was going to use the clippings but because I had a short time frame in which to paint everything I decided not to. And since I wanted the cover to match the rest of the book, I painted out most of the newsprint.
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