Pencil Watercolour Gouache
PAINT COMPELLING BOOK COVER ART
IRIS COMPIET reveals how she paints an eye-catching, wraparound book cover for her book Faeries of the Faultlines using watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
This piece was created as the dust jacket cover for the reprint of Faeries of the Faultlines, a book which was Kickstarted in 2017 and has since sold out. I wanted to create a piece that would lure people in, much like a faery would lure you into the forest. It had to be mysterious and inviting, beautiful but also a bit dangerous. I needed to create something that would be a perfect fit for the tone of the book.