Eleanor Holmes

Monday, 25 February 2013

Wind in the Willows

So I think it is time to upload some of the projects I am currently working on...
The first one is a book cover for 'Wind in the Willows' (by Kenneth Grahame)
The deadline to enter designs is 9th April 2013 so I am currently still working on them.
However, I have started. And I have been very productive by collecting bits of vegetation.
I then put these bits of vegetation on light sensitive paper and exposed them.
This is what happened:

So after I created these I scanned them in (which makes putting them on here possible)
And used Photoshop to piece them together:

But this is far too scary for a children's book about toads and moles and badgers.
So then I changed the colouring:

Which will then potentially look like this as a book cover:

But it would be better to include the characters:

And then layer them in Photoshop again:

... Still a working progress!

Monday, 5 November 2012

"Art can't change anything except people- but art changes people, and people can make everything change." Milton Glaser. The Design of Dissent.

Monday, 22 October 2012

Darkroom

Hopefully, I will use these images in someway
.... If not, it was fun anyway

A poem!!

One night I wrote this:

When the rain has fallen and the earth is clear,
It becomes quite obvious that the world is a sphere.
It's round and its bulgy with bumps and lumps.
It's hard and it's solid but changes with months.
There is Autumn and Winter and Summer and Spring,
New babies are born and the birds will sing.
But sometimes its dark and hard to see.
When people move out and loved ones leave,
But through the fog and fire and fear,
There will always be signs that this world is a sphere.

...And then I still couldn't sleep so I drew: