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Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Big triptych

Fighting Fantasy
And here, to compare with the sketch by Russ featured in the last post, is Kevin Jenkins's full finished art for The Court of Hidden Faces, sans text. These covers were produced before digital art, remember - or when you needed a Cray to run Photoshop, anyway, so Kevin created them the old-fashioned way, using enamels and oils and tufts of camel-tail. And they're big. Kevin had to haul the paintings out of his attic, each in three sections, stack 'em up against the wall, and snap them with his Canon EOS 400D.

So, behold: the Garden of Exotic Fragrances. I wonder whether we shouldn't run off some full-size posters. Any takers?
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7 comments:

  1. Hamza2 August 2012 at 06:51

    Love this image. Wonderfully vibrant.

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    1. Dave Morris2 August 2012 at 14:36

      I almost feel like Yes should re-form just to make the album :-)

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    2. Dave Morris2 August 2012 at 14:41

      Hmm... just found out from Wiki that Yes are still touring - but sans Wakeman and Anderson, so it's more like "hmm, maybe" than "yes". Those are the guys I want to do the Court of Hidden Faces concept album.

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    3. Alexander3 August 2012 at 10:57

      Once time travel is possible, we will take care of that. It will be the THIRD 1972 album :)

      Alternatively, we could give it to Crimson King and turn their first album into "In the Court of the Hidden Faces"

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    4. Dave Morris3 August 2012 at 11:01

      I like your thinking, Alexander!

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  2. Anonymous2 August 2012 at 23:01

    What happened to the originals?

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    1. Dave Morris3 August 2012 at 08:41

      They went back in Kevin Jenkins's attic, I believe.

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