The third cover completed this week was designed for the first chapter book in the Granny Finds Adventure series, by Carlie Simonsen. In this case, the item Granny found was a gas mask. This was a little tricky to do, but I opted for simple, using a common background, or background idea, with a single item to differentiate it.
The item for this book was the gas mask, for which I found a
close approximation in a photo of a gas mask by Exopixel on Dreamstime. The
background is from one of my own pictures of some Australian parkland, suitably
cropped and darkened. Both gas mask and park land were manipulated by GIMP, and
the cover was created by the same program.
Again, I started with a template base, and then layered in
the elements I wanted. The process looked a little like this.
The final product looks like this.
Helping Gran is a chore, but with
her holding their mobile phones hostage, Gareth and Giselle have no choice.
Unpacking boxes of books is no surprise. Unpacking the gas mask is—and so is
finding themselves back in the war, in Gran’s war, because ‘some things are
meant to be changed’. How on Earth, does Gran expect them to help with this?
Better yet, how on Earth, can they get back home?
Granny Finds a Gas Mask is the first book in a series where the things
Granny finds lead to adventure, and Gareth and Giselle have to figure out how
to get back to their own time and place.
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