Still Fresh
APRIL 4, 2013
The final cover, when too much is not enough.
Sketchbook pages with an assortment of possible cover line renderings.
After some cutting and pasting, a very rough composition, followed by a tight arrangement of type and then, a greyscale rendering including the fruits and vegetables.
Some pages from the Harter book show a variety of garden goodies.
Using a digital technique analogous to John Craig's classic engraving collage style, the each image was scanned, saved as a tiff, imported into Illustrator, given color as an opacity mask and a second color fill using various gradients.
Each of the dozen-plus engravings were scanned, positioned, masked and colored to create the final arrangement. (Yes, it was painstaking work and it did take a long time).
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