album cover work ... Expatriate Blues

this is another album cover i did for a record called "expatriate blues" (on iTunes ... if you want to check out the music) ... the original of the work was acrylic on canvas (one of those 4"x4" squares) that i did while on a weekend at mammoth ... anyway ... photo'd it and put it in photoshop and messed with it ... in the original work, the dots write out "help is on the way" ...

anyone else do work on things like album covers and the like?

 

Thats really cool man.. People tell me sometimes that my photos or art look like album covers but I don't do that intentionally.. (or know what they mean really)

 

Voodoo, great cover. I would love to try a cover sometime. How did you get into it, and what does it pay?

 

i just make art ... sometimes we need album covers so i make it for that ...

what does it pay ... it can pay great ... for me, i do it for our own projects so it pays for my way of life. my husband is a musical artist and then we have a dance record label, so we just do the work and live ... i suppose if i wanted to just be an artist for a living i would have more of those answers. thankfully, i am spared from that torturous life on planet earth these days and how they treat artist in the professional realm ... i'm so off grid its not even funny!

as for what makes album or cd cover art ... its kind of like doing a complete story in one picture. the matching of the energy of the art with the energy the artists want to put out in the music is a big part of it for me.

if you study some album art you really like ... outside from the photography ones that use the artist as the impression and expression, as that is easier to find the match because the artist is involved and their energy is the same as on the record. but the ability to do something unrelated and bring many energies together as the albums flow and tell a story is what is important. if people are telling you that, it means, likely, that your art tells a 'beginning, middle and end' in the work. the art on an album cover like the album itself (just like a GOOD book) will have a strong theme, good character, development and transformation, dynamics and a conclusion.

that's what i find anyway.

 

I love this one, it reminds me of Saucerful of Secrets in a way.

 

thanks ... i do wish i wasn't 13 when the 70's ended ... the album art from the '70s ... well, that was the pinnacle time for that art form!

 

that's awesome

 

I wish I was alive for the 60s/70s :tongue: And I agree, it was the height of album cover art.

 

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

thanks for rubbin' it in ... happy new year!