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The
images in the Bookcover galleries were commissioned as covers for
the fantasy and science-fiction markets, for authors including Ursula
le Guin, Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance and AA Attanasio.
Nearly
all were created using traditional methods: acrylic paint and inks
on watercolour board, usually of around 20"x30" inches.
Only a couple of works here are wholly digital, though that has
now become the preferred way of working. Although the original titles
were often imaginative and enigmatic, a simple numbering system
is used to identify them here. The suffix D indicates the
image shown is a detail, usually being the right hand side of a
wrap-round cover, i.e. the front cover.
Using
a computer has also generated some new skills which have resulted
in a variety of work for both print and the internet, some which can
be seen on the Digital & Design.
Secondary
rights (and in in one or two cases first) remain available for most
uses. Originals and prints
are also mostly available, in sizes
up to 30"x24", on high quality art paper, using archival
inks; these prints will last longer than 100 years if appropriately
framed. Nos.11, 68 and 54, which were commissioned for the Lyonesse
trilogy by Jack Vance are available as a set, which can be previewed
here.
Commissions
are of course also welcome.
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