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Blast from the past....
Jul. 7th, 2009 09:18 pmJust yesterday I was wishing I'd had $600 to buy the original cover to FIRES OF NUALA, my least favorite title change, but the best impression of the world I've ever seen done. But $600 was a lot then, and I didn't know about buying original artwork, hauling it around to signings and deducting it as promo. So some collector has the original. But now you can apparently get a lot of Don Dixon's works as Giclee prints. They sell 18x24 and 24x36 inch prints, the larger for half what the original would have cost me.
http://cosmographica.com/gallery/prints_main.html
Wish I'd had a better head for numbers back then.
Anyone ever purchased a Giclee print? How's the quality?
Amusingly, the third Nuala cover is not on the site. It was badly done. I don't know if the editors or art department asked for too-fast changes, but I thought of it as the hunchback cover. I remember showing it to artist David Lee Anderson, who diplomatically said: "The rocks on the back cover are great!" I agreed, and said I only wished the front was good enough to make someone flip the thing and read the back cover.
We're talking that if I had been the art editor under deadline, I would have either flopped the cover and put the cliff on the front, or taken the back cover of the first book and made it the third cover. Yup -- that bad. Even good artists have bad days....
http://cosmographica.com/gallery/prints_main.html
Wish I'd had a better head for numbers back then.
Anyone ever purchased a Giclee print? How's the quality?
Amusingly, the third Nuala cover is not on the site. It was badly done. I don't know if the editors or art department asked for too-fast changes, but I thought of it as the hunchback cover. I remember showing it to artist David Lee Anderson, who diplomatically said: "The rocks on the back cover are great!" I agreed, and said I only wished the front was good enough to make someone flip the thing and read the back cover.
We're talking that if I had been the art editor under deadline, I would have either flopped the cover and put the cliff on the front, or taken the back cover of the first book and made it the third cover. Yup -- that bad. Even good artists have bad days....
