INSIDE OUT: Enid Blyton for Grown-ups
How Ruth Palmer illustrated five fresh covers depicting the Famous Five as adults, for the new series of books by Bruno Vincent.
Written by Garrick Webster
Artist Partners are delighted to welcome Esther Cox
Artist Partners are delighted to add Esther Cox to their talented list of artists - and very delighted we are too. Esther who comes from a surface pattern design background - loves to work with textures, and bright bold colours, and has a great sense of modern vintage about her work.
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Levi Pinfold Illustrates The Song from Somewhere Else by A.F. Harrold
Levi Pinfold's eerie yet magical illustrations perfectly capture the mood of A.F. Harrold's new book, The Song from Somewhere Else, published by Bloomsbury this month.
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It’s All a Game for Bill Garland
Phosphor Art's Bill Garland is best known for his retro, painterly artwork. When a client comes to you with a book cover brief and they're looking for a retro and traditional but graphic style Bill is always top of the list.
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Thorkild’s Song Artwork by James Gifford
Phosphor Art's James Gifford was recently commissioned by Oxford University Press to illustrate Thorkild's Song by Rudyard Kipling in his signature Graphic Novel style. The poem is from The Puck of Pook's Hill, originally published in 1906 and is sung by a Danish seafarer hoping for wind. We're looking forward to receiving our copy of the book with the text on James' gorgeous illustrations. For now you can read the poem below...
Steve Stone illustrates cover for Stephen Aryan’s – The Age of Darkness Trilogy
World known digital artist Steve Stone renown for his epic and cinematic looking images - was once again commissioned by Orbit to produce the final book cover in the series for Stephen Aryan's The Age of Darkness Trilogy.
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Artist Partners are delighted to announce new artist Katerina Kerouli
Artist Partners are delighted to announce a new artistic talent has recently joined us:
Katerina Kerouli - is a multi talented, paper engineer in folding and paper craft, with a huge talent as an illustrator, writer and graphic designer all wrapped into one !
Meet Rising Star, Jessica Courtney-Tickle…
Jessica Courtney-Tickle graduated from Kingston University in July 2014. She has a stand-out style, with beautiful attention to detail and the ability to create an incredible light and atmosphere in her work. Jess joins us at The Bright Emporium this month with her newly published book featuring the music of it’s names sake, The Four Seasons,by Antonio Vivaldi. A musical story time is a first for us and we are thoroughly looking forward to it. In speaking to Jess about her inspiration, music is a huge one, making this book very special to her. Here’s a bit more about the very talented Jessica…
Carrie May – Summer Book Covers
Carrie May was thrilled to have her artwork featured on several of this Summer’s big releases. Carrie's beautiful cover for Sarah Morgan's latest title 'Sunset in Central Park', perfectly captures New York on a hot summer's day. Carrie used vibrant colours and rich textures to create a stand out cover for this romantic novel published by Mira.
METALTOWN Cover Illustration by Christopher Gibbs
Christopher Gibb's atmospheric cover illustration for Kristen Simmons' exciting new book METALTOWN, is published by Tor in the UK this month. Chris' imagery was the perfect choice for this dystopian tale set in a fictional factory city, diseased and ravaged by war, where money and food are in short supply.