Tag Archives: book covers

The Moorehawke covers live on!

By elise | Published: February 25, 2011

Last year I had the utmost pleasure to create the covers for a brilliant trilogy by the divine Celine Kiernan. You can tell I’m happy about that! It was a big undertaking and it was my decision to go all-out in their design and style to really shoot for something memorable that would also engage [...]

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Mondoodle 24-01-2011

By elise | Published: January 24, 2011

My hands weren’t up to drawing today but it doesn’t matter because I received something very exciting to share! The Russians are releasing the Moorehawke Trilogy by Celine Kiernan and they’re using my covers. Woohoo! And here’s the first one! I LOVE it. I’ve always found it very exciting to see any of my work [...]

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Magnifique minis!

By elise | Published: September 17, 2010

What is it about little things?? My favourite books as a kid were the smallest ones I could find. The Beatrix Potter series were excellent, a books called Paddy’s New Hat was brilliant, but the crappy little thumb-sized books we once got in a Christmas cracker were best. From memory the stories weren’t good and [...]

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Moorehawke covers

By elise | Published: April 27, 2010

I’m having a happy night! I’ve been getting some great responses to the covers I did for the fantasy trilogy by Celine Kiernan – and have just been shown a couple of articles on the Book Smugglers blog which talk about them. The first two books are out and from what I hear, the covers [...]

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Winding up 2009

By elise | Published: January 7, 2010

Last year ended in a frantically busy way. Across December there were meetings and schemings, markets and artworks, making the shop and etherially manning it, illustrating  a new picture book, roughing out another, working on stories, juggling ideas and concepts and generally frantically dog-paddling. Would I do anything else? Not on your life! But the [...]

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PT's on YouTube

By elise | Published: August 26, 2009

Check this out! Allen & Unwin posted this on YouTube. It’s so ace to see that it really does all mesh together Phew!

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Moorehawke covers

By elise | Published: June 15, 2009

Hey guys, I’m allowed to show you the final Moorehawke covers now! Written by the wondrous Celine Kiernan and published here by Allen & Unwin – I can’t wait to see them in-store! Here are each of the individual covers and the collated image below. I’ve heard that they’re developing some great posters for the [...]

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The first Moorehawke cover

By elise | Published: April 27, 2009

And here it is! The first cover and left hand piece of the triptych. It’s going to be mainly black and white. Lovely!

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The three covers

By elise | Published: April 25, 2009

…are done! Complete, polished-off, kaput, done, done and done. (Do I sound relieved?) And I’m really happy with them. It’s been a very interesting project and a very hard one. Here are some of the unique challenges: * Having three dramatic phases of picture – usually there is one focal point and the rest organises [...]

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