Under the blue tree...reading

Tales of adventure :)

B is for Bunnies

"Bunnies Holding Hands"

By the NanoBot, circa early 2011

"Alphabet Bunny"

Me, circa mid-2012

I'm still learning.

Some day I hope to catch up with the master,

my source of daily inspiration :)

Cover design - Book for teen girls

A few days ago I was asked to design a book cover - oh boy.

Hands up everybody who judges a book by its cover - I do!

I'll still give it a chance and read the blurb before I make up my mind,

but I do, do like nice covers on books.

Of course, if the only thing good about the book is its cover, 

you find out pretty quickly.

Anyway, no pressure, right - phew!

I made a sketch - editor loved it.

So far so good.

 

 

Then comes the coloring.

And everything goes nuts.

SO MANY OPTIONS!!!!

We haven't yet arrived at the final image

(editors and publishers consider a whole whack of factors

before deciding on a cover, so I understand)

but here's my rough drawings.

 

 

Can't reveal the tile yet,

but you can say it's a collection of notes about

"life, the Universe and everything", from the little of it that I read.

 

 

Notes from a mom to her teenage daughter.

Pretty cool, right?

Remember, these are just at the idea stage still...

I like these last two vintage-y looking ones best.

The one with the closed eyes makes the girl 

look like she's floating away on a dream...

We'll see what gets picked.

(They might all get canned - then we start all over again :))

A new book I'm working on, hmmm, 

maybe I should say A new book I'm supposed to be working on 

but don't seem to be making much headway with,

is a poem about a camel

and teaches kindness to animals

(always a topic dear to my heart).

I really wanted to paint these pics by hand, 

but this sample is a mixed input by (wo)man and machine,

and just this one image in its original size is more than 75 MB.

I think I broke my computer with it!

Anyways, it's been sent out for approval

(or otherwise!)

and I'll know soon whether or not it's a go.

Either way, this book will be filled with warm colors,

textures, borders - yum!

I've slacked away from blogging, again, 

overwhelmed with a whole bunch of things going on,

but

there's been...

See you soon, Blog!