Since 2014 and before I have designed several covers for Thomas Pynchon titles - always a fun prospect as a lot of his work is zany and yet rooted in a contemporary landscape, which means they can be quite fun.
Lots of Photo-transfer , lots of Pop images , lots of colour , lots of airbrushing - sometimes acryllic direct onto the skin.
Having done a lot of Photo-transfer on goatskin, I have yet to find a suitable and flexible enough technique that does not involve making photopolymer plates, printing presses, or xylene.
Using acryllic stiffens the skin, the image can crack, and it of course makes hand-lettering a problem.....
So, until i manage to sort that problem out - a short-term design solution has worked quite well - lettering in circle onlays
More next week, including a look at some tradtional work completed in the last 2 years, aswell as some design binding.
