Monday, January 26, 2015

Amber Cover original & modified

Here are two versions of one painting. The original, and a version that was photographed and modified in Gimp, a photoshop type program.  I used a detail of the original painting with the black outlines for the cover of my novel, A Summer in Amber, and used the full version, shown below for a chapter heading illustration. The black outlines adds a great deal to the painting. The original is very plain, but knowing that I'd be modifying it, I didn't care.

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on board original version















the chapter art version















The cover used the same "cartoon" option that put in the black lines, but used a much higher resolution photo to do so, so the lines were finer than in this low resolution version.

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