Tag: book cover

Scorpion and Other Bottlecaps

I gave some of my bottlecaps away, so I decided to make more. This is a simple, short-term project that can tide me over while I’m waiting for something or when I don’t know what I want to make. I have a hole-punch that I use to make perfect 1″ circles, but it broke recently. …

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Big Gingerbread House

I had created the little gingerbread house to use for the new book cover for my short stories and Jeremy took some great photos, but the photos weren’t the right size so we had to re-shoot.  It took a few weeks to schedule the second shooting, so I had time to redesign the house to …

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Seeing Things, Part 8: First cover mockups

Dear Blog Friends: As you can see, I’ve been hard at work on the cover design. This isn’t going to be the final cover.  I went to WisCon last weekend, hoping that I would be able to learn something about cover art creation. I met a lot of great people, and got some good information, …

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Cover Art: “Voice Like a Cello” and “Bear Country”

Here’s the cover for my second pairing of short stories. I made it bigger on this, since it’s my art blog and this site is all about the art. Finding an interesting photo to work from was the easy part. I do a lot of gardening and have zillions of photos of my plants. This …

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