08/31/12

Mad Ancestor cover mockups

I’ve settled on a colour/texture/font scheme:

with the layout basically like this (the new Kindle format is narrow):

If I include the scarf on the green/peach one I think it will be quite diaphanous with a few roses.

This was another look I tried —

— but I prefer the coloured background and fancier font. So I’ll see what I can do on that next week.

Also, Pan is really ready this time – collecting him Sunday.

ETA: Hmm, the more I look at the blue/yellow scheme the more I like it. The green one is very retro, but the yellow one is a mix of retro and modern that’s probably more in keeping with the stories.

ETA2: Yeah, the yellow one. Why is it so hard to decide on things?

08/26/12

Orbs of Zenith

Lovely picture collection focusing on Golden Age illustration. Here be eye candy. Very keen on these by Ray Frederick Coyle. I can never seem to have enough of the Beardsley school.

08/22/12

Kyoko Imazu

I remember seeing one of Kyoko Imazu’s marvellous paper cutouts at Flinders Street Station a couple of (a few?) years ago. The other day I came across her website. Her work appeals to me greatly, with its whimsical, pensive and sometimes macabre moods, and all the rabbits — art is one place where you can never have too many rabbits. Her incredibly skillful paper cuts are whole dreamlands unto themselves.

08/5/12

Dim Sim’s secret identity

I met one of my neighbours lugging him across the street. She says she’s been feeding him for five months, and has given him the name Tong Tang (Gold Bar). One advantage to being a 15 pound cat, as he is now, is a degree of immunity to abduction by a bird of prey.

K.J. Bishop

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Monthly Archives: August 2012

Mad Ancestor cover mockups

Orbs of Zenith

Kyoko Imazu

Dim Sim’s secret identity