Sissy Bear at The Fort

Recently found out that the book I illustrated for Holly Arnold Kinney, owner of The Fort, a landmark restaurant in Colorado, about her family's wonderful pet bear, Sissy is a finalist for both the Colorado Book Awards and the Spur (Western Writers of America) Awards!

Cover: Wordsworth and the Dragon

© 2012 Scotti Cohn and art by Christina Wald

After working bit by bit through a minefield of deadlines, the cover for Wordsworth and the Dragon. Stay tuned as we put together the final layout and illustrations for Scotti's wonderful book!

Cover Design-a-palooza: Time to Vote!

This is concept 6!

Here is the whole set:

Vote and comment here:


http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/p/cover-art.html

More Wordsworth and the Dragon: Cover Design-a-palooza Week 5

Featuring the redesigned cavabok! The whole lot: http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/p/cover-art.html

More Wordsworth and the Dragon: Cover Design-a-palooza Week 4

After this week, two more concepts to go and then voting begins! See the others here: http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/p/cover-art.html

This one is Dash-centric with a whiff of "C"

More Wordsworth and the Dragon: Cover Design-a-palooza Week 3

 

See the first two designs here: http://wordsworthdragon.blogspot.com/p/cover-art.html

More Wordsworth and the Dragon: Cover Design-a-palooza Week 2

Here is this week's cover design. This will be a little more graphic in execution. Also, Chapter 8 is posted!

More Wordsworth and the Dragon: Cover Design-a-palooza Week 1

I am working on cover concepts for Wordsworth and the Dragon. Above is the first design. We will post a design each week and then we will hold a vote to select which will be the final!

Back in Town and New Book Cover!

Just as I got back from vacation in Greece! While I sort out the pictures and get them uploaded to Flickr (including some urban sketches I did), here is a little post on the final cover design for my book coming out in Fall 2012...

It is a wrap around cover and below is the full composition. This one has a really cool concept. For those interested, here is the sketch

And finally, a touch of Santorini from my trip.

Annie Jump Cannon Cover

Today is 70th Anniversary of Annie Jump Cannon's death on April 13th, 1941...  Here is the cover of the book Carole and I did coming out in fall!

Frozen Stare by Oneal Walters

OK, I really do have some new art to post. This is a book cover for a new book of poetry by Oneal Walters released today on Canada Day. He lives and works in Toronto and his company The Age Begins books is actively looking for poetry books that concentrate on women and world issues. Here is a link!

The art is showing a frozen rose starting to thaw. It was refreshing to do something more conceptual.