{"id":2736,"date":"2015-09-04T14:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2018-11-19T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:55:34","slug":"kinda-literal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2015\/09\/kinda-literal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinda Literal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first of two big albums I’ve been working on this year is out today<\/a> – Etherwood’s second album, Blue Leaves. There was a lot of artwork involved in it, so here’s a drop of some imagery, notes, and a few exclusive bits that didn’t make the cut. <\/p>\n

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work on the project started way back in January with the single ‘You’ll Always Be A Part Of Me’. When I was briefed on it, all I knew was the album was going to be called ‘Blue Leaves’ and we wanted the single to hint at that without giving the final artwork away. I made some linocuts of leaves, which gave it a nice rustic edge. I also did an earlier version where I did the text in linocut too, but it didn’t really work for Woody:<\/p>\n

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The next single was Souvenirs. I wasn’t given much of a brief for this beyond the title, so this was my first run at it:<\/p>\n

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As much as I liked it, it didn’t make the cut. Woody explained that it opened with the lyrics ‘Left it all behind, a package by the door’, and he imagined the cover for this one would be a package. Here’s a post-it sketch of the new idea:<\/p>\n

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Making a nice inky mess printing up the wrapping paper<\/p>\n

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My ten-year-old niece happened to be visiting when I was doing the final shot of this cover, and got her first taste of a career in art-direction, making me reshoot the photo so the string didn’t cover up too much of the text in the final version:<\/p>\n

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The package from the cover ended up being used in the video – it’s always nice when there’s a bit of continuity between my art campaign and the music video. The only thing is the package hasn’t been returned to me yet, and I think it has an old hard drive of mine inside!<\/p>\n