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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 16, 2020 13:55:27 GMT
With a little time we'll be able to build bookcases and unbox a few hundred books, waiting on the youngest to treat books with a bit more respect.
I miss some of the old cover art.
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Post by ronmiller on Jan 16, 2020 15:24:15 GMT
When my wife and I were working on Dune in Mexico back in 1984, we visited a little bookstore run by the American embassy. It was entirely for charity and all of the books...mostly paperbacks...would be bought, read and immediately donated right back again. So I discovered hundreds of nearly vintage paperbacks from the 1940s and 50s. All for about a dime each. I bought boxes of them, largely for the cover art. But then started reading them...
My own Velda and all of the spinoffs were one of the results!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 16, 2020 15:31:23 GMT
After we got together my spouse started reading some of the books I've bought to replace copies I lost through the years, and she remarked on how she preferred many of those stories to newer works.
I shudder to think of the titles I lost to a storage fire close to 20 years ago, many of which are no longer in print [at least not where I can find them].
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Post by ronmiller on Jan 19, 2020 19:58:37 GMT
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 19, 2020 21:20:59 GMT
Makes me wonder how the vambraces and grieves I have would work with scale mail on a cover.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2020 22:44:17 GMT
Ron, all the elements are interesting. The woman's face and posture, the angle of the bus, the crowd, the font, and the castle and fire in the background. It's extremely engaging.
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Post by ronmiller on Jan 19, 2020 22:48:25 GMT
Makes me wonder how the vambraces and grieves I have would work with scale mail on a cover. The "mail" I used is actually just a heavy, crocheted fisherman's vest. I made it a little more silvery-grey in the finished version of the cover.
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Post by ronmiller on Jan 19, 2020 22:51:59 GMT
Ron, all the elements are interesting. The woman's face and posture, the angle of the bus, the crowd, the font, and the castle and fire in the background. It's extremely engaging. Thanks, Maggie! I hope that the publisher will agree! I did something really, really stupid this afternoon. There was a second cover that had been entirely finished. I accidentally saved the one I showed everyone today on top of it by inadvertently using the same file name, replacing the earlier file. It's gone forever! I have to do it over again from scratch! Boy, was there ever a lesson learned today!
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 19, 2020 22:56:12 GMT
Ah, I get modifying one thing for another use, although I do it with steel [phosphor bronze when I can get it] and wood. I have a decent idea for making scale mail as well as linothoraix [the kevlar of the bronze to early iron age].
Sometimes the weight of the real thing makes a difference in how a model stands.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 0:47:12 GMT
Oh my God, that must have been so painful, Ron. It's every creator's worst nightmare. I feel for you.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 0:48:39 GMT
Hmm...maybe you could look into recent documents...maybe someone here knows a trick. I know you overwrote it, and restore doesn't affect images...maybe there's a way.. Cameron, any ideas?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 8:53:33 GMT
Ron, I think it's fascinating the way you bring all the different elements together in order to create a brilliant cover. It must take hours and I really feel for you after you lost one of your designs. Also I have been studying your excellent painting and wondered what media you used to paint it?
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Post by ronmiller on Jan 20, 2020 12:00:58 GMT
Ron, I think it's fascinating the way you bring all the different elements together in order to create a brilliant cover. It must take hours and I really feel for you after you lost one of your designs. Also I have been studying your excellent painting and wondered what media you used to paint it? Thanks for the nice words! When I paint in traditional media I use acrylics.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 12:19:20 GMT
Ron is it hanging in an art gallery somewhere, or are your galleries in the USA filled, as our's are in the UK, with the Tracy Emins of the modern art world.
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Post by ronmiller on Jan 20, 2020 14:23:43 GMT
Ron is it hanging in an art gallery somewhere, or are your galleries in the USA filled, as our's are in the UK, with the Tracy Emins of the modern art world. Nope. It's actually in a closet upstairs!
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