The Cover!

Here is me, attempting to use my illustration background to do graphic design!  I'm finally starting to know my way around the Gimp.  (It's free, I keep telling myself. . .)  Tomorrow, when he is no longer gaming, I will need to sit down at Chris' computer to do some clean-up in the white areas.  My monitor has such lousy colors that everything looks washed out, which is useless for color editing.

Cookbook Cover!

We have our cover!  Many thanks to Martinique Fisher for her lush, delicious painting.  I have had friends ask me why I wasn't illustrating the cover myself.  Two answers: I don't have time!  And, even if the circumstances were perfect, I doubt I could do justice to a picture of food.  I know my limits as an illustrator.

But, ahem, I'm too clueless about graphic design to know my limits, so the real GD-ers out there can have a laugh at my novice attempt to do something psudo-professional with text.  I used to have fun mangling Palatino for fliers back in my college days, and it was a treat to fiddle with it again.  I'll be tweaking the cover layout some more before the final version goes to the publisher, no doubt.