An appropriately sleepless and restless night leads to a day working on the cover art for Another Violet Night. I started with some photos, and chose one I liked...
Then started to work on designs based on this... working, changing, adding, subtracting... experimenting with text and placement...
Then I took some summer garden photos for the other booklet pages and the rear. I wanted to clash night and day, so lots of day images to be warped into the nocturnal. One result is a change to the top left when I added some inverted ivy there...
I've got lots of colour and texture combinations to play with already, the greys and oranges, the white/red/blue. This will make it easier to work on the booklet (and digital booklet!) pages. The ivy theme was applied to the CD rear too. I chose orange to contrast with the violet of the album's title, though there isn't much violet in the imagery itself, the purples emerge from the inverted greens.
I've made full CD artwork for all of my albums, often rather beautiful (if I say so myself), but only a tiny minority actually get made, primarily due of lack of sales and money, but also lack of my pushing them. My most popular CD, for example, is probably We Robot because I worked on selling and handing out copies at every opportunity. But I've got through lots of The Spiral Staircase and Cycles & Shadows too.
Another reason for not making many CDs is that since the explosion in my music began in 2020, my albums were temporary experiments. I knew it would be a learning process and that my vocals and production abilities would improve. The albums weren't good enough or ready enough to promote wildly. We Robot was the first I thought was good enough, hence the recent explosion in remasters as I revisit and fix-up my art-pop canon.
I'm not actually sure if the tracks (never mind durations) are finalised yet, but that can all be changed with ease. Onwards I charge.
