Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Snow and cover art

There's a blizzard outside right now! You can really see in the streetlights, there's just a haze midair. Kinda neat. This afternoon it started with one lazy flake that slowly made its way down, then a few others followed, and now it's snowpocalypse. I know, I know, all of you are sick of snow, but I'm not : )

I've been fiddling around with some cover art for Woodsocket '79 just to amuse myself. The truth is if it ever gets published I won't have very much input on the cover design. Or maybe I will . . . I don't really know, so here's what I came up with just for fun.

At first I was thinking just a nice folky kind of cover, but it was boring. Please excuse my horrible color skills-all I could find for a quick resource were crayons.



And then I thought, hey, since I reference Botticelli, why not mix that in the cover? I whipped this one up today real fast. The only thing I'd change (besides the poor quality) is I'd now put a revolver in her hand instead of a champagne glass. Don't know why I didn't think of it earlier, but oh well . . . Notice how I forgot to put the "k" in the title. Whoops!



7 comments:

  1. A gun-totin' Venus sounds like the better option.... Of course, I haven't read the book YET.

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  2. what fun to see your image of the cover. love it.

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  3. Enjoy the snow and stay safe. Love the cover art!

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  4. Amy I'm looking forward to reading 'Woodsocket '79' too. I think you're cover is cool! Snowpocalypse sounds if it could be too much of a good thing. We have had a couple of nights of hard frost here so maybe it will be visiting us as well. Hope you're able to get out and about in it. xx

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  5. Well, after shoveling snow this afternoon I have to say I'm not as happy about it as yesterday. Funny how that works! I hope the sun sticks around for you Molly! xx

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