Making art for When We are Vanished.
Book covers are always exciting moments, a confirmation that the book is really finished, really happening.
Originally posted on The Moth Festival:
Here is one of my favourite things I have done in some considerable time. Here it is in pencil. (on a toned background)
And, here is the finished piece. (I’ll save the version with the title on it for closer to release date)
This is the cover art for When We Are Vanished, a new book by my wife and partner in crime, Nimue Brown. If you have been following this blog at all, you will already know that I am an ardent fan of her work, and have been since first reading her writing. ( Nearly a decade before we met in person!) I was lucky enough to have this book read aloud to me as it progressed, and it is haunting , numinous , dreamlike and fiendishly clever. Think somewhere between DeLint and Atwood in terms of tone and subject matter. You will be hearing a lot more about it before…
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