I'm seeing red!
Posted by Paul Carrick at 11/19/2008 12:46 PM 
Categories: Painting, children's books, H.P. Lovecraft, Sculpture
Categories: Painting, children's books, H.P. Lovecraft, Sculpture
Hello!
It's been wonderful to receive all the nice email about the Cthulhu statues arriving at their destinations. I greatly underestimated how rewarding this project was, thanks to everyone for the comments, input and support.
Speaking of Cthulhu (when am I not??), I'd like to share this special one-off Cthulhu statue. Some of you might recall the giant red Cthulhu painting commission from this summer? Well, this is the companion piece:
Nifty, eh? You can see more here: http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft7.html I'm glad I was asked to do this, as I feel it worked out well.. which might influence the next color scheme for the statue.
What, not enough red? How about this:
This is an album cover for the heavy metal band Denial out of Mexico. I've got to say, these were some of the nicest and most supportive people I have worked with, and that level of enthusiasm greatly affected my work. After listening to (and being influenced by) their music, they let me just cut loose and paint whatever I felt. A very memorable experience, indeed! To top it off, it will also be released on Vinyl, which is a first for me.
Going with the red theme, my children's book Watch out For Wolfgang is now up for preorder on Amazon. I'm not certain when it will be released, I am guessing early-mid winter, but I will post any news I get. If you use Amazon, consider buying it through this blog or on my site:
Looking into the future, I am building momentum to self publish a book of my Lovecraft artwork. I am aware of numerous online print on demand services, though I am uncertain which is best for printing my artwork (as most are likely geared towards text-heavy books).
The challenge seems to be that my art tends to be very dark and subtle, value-wise, so cheap paper and poor printing would pretty much render the project useless. I started dealing with one company called Lulu, but there's little information about the paper (other than weight) and the quality of the reproduction. I can't even convince them to send me a single sheet of paper with a printed image to assure me that the effort of laying out the book will be worth it. I'm envisioning a book of muddy black rectangles, which would be a waste of time and resources. That's enough to discourage me from using them.
It might be around 32pp with a color cover, full bleed pages, square or perfect bound paperback, size around 8-1/2 x 11". Some offer selling services, though I won't require it.Can anyone recommend a decent service? Thanks in advance for any leads.
until next time....
~Paul
It's been wonderful to receive all the nice email about the Cthulhu statues arriving at their destinations. I greatly underestimated how rewarding this project was, thanks to everyone for the comments, input and support.
Speaking of Cthulhu (when am I not??), I'd like to share this special one-off Cthulhu statue. Some of you might recall the giant red Cthulhu painting commission from this summer? Well, this is the companion piece:
Nifty, eh? You can see more here: http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft7.html I'm glad I was asked to do this, as I feel it worked out well.. which might influence the next color scheme for the statue.
What, not enough red? How about this:
This is an album cover for the heavy metal band Denial out of Mexico. I've got to say, these were some of the nicest and most supportive people I have worked with, and that level of enthusiasm greatly affected my work. After listening to (and being influenced by) their music, they let me just cut loose and paint whatever I felt. A very memorable experience, indeed! To top it off, it will also be released on Vinyl, which is a first for me.
Going with the red theme, my children's book Watch out For Wolfgang is now up for preorder on Amazon. I'm not certain when it will be released, I am guessing early-mid winter, but I will post any news I get. If you use Amazon, consider buying it through this blog or on my site:
Looking into the future, I am building momentum to self publish a book of my Lovecraft artwork. I am aware of numerous online print on demand services, though I am uncertain which is best for printing my artwork (as most are likely geared towards text-heavy books).
The challenge seems to be that my art tends to be very dark and subtle, value-wise, so cheap paper and poor printing would pretty much render the project useless. I started dealing with one company called Lulu, but there's little information about the paper (other than weight) and the quality of the reproduction. I can't even convince them to send me a single sheet of paper with a printed image to assure me that the effort of laying out the book will be worth it. I'm envisioning a book of muddy black rectangles, which would be a waste of time and resources. That's enough to discourage me from using them.
It might be around 32pp with a color cover, full bleed pages, square or perfect bound paperback, size around 8-1/2 x 11". Some offer selling services, though I won't require it.Can anyone recommend a decent service? Thanks in advance for any leads.
until next time....
~Paul
Paul dammit, you did a great wirk after all these months... i truly admire you and your statue... greetings and keep all the good work
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Wow, thanks for the kind words, it's very fueling to read this! Just wait to see what's coming next....
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Red ones...ah you know the rest.
Nice to see you've been busy, boss. That is one cool album cover, and the red Louie really pops.
Good luck with the publishing quest. I got no leads for ya.
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The red statue ships tomorrow, let's see how fast it gets there. Maybe by yesterday?
Glad you dig the cover, I had a blast painting it.
~Paul
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Really like the painting for Denial, I only wish it was larger so I could relish the details. Diggin' your statues too.
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very inspireing work Paul.
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