The Quest for the Right Background Image
/I’m stumped, stuck in the mud, bamboozled, confounded, and bewildered. This time my befuddlement is about the background painting for the cover image. Up to this point I haven’t thought much about what a background’s function is. Like most consumers of art, I didn’t really have to think about backgrounds at all — I experienced them viscerally. But now that I have to create a meaningful background to support the message of my children’s book, and I’m getting off to a rough start. What you see here is the result of one hour’s thought. I furiously created half a dozen backgrounds and deleted them all. Out of frustration I got out a spatter brush and came of with today’s inch of progress, which hopefully will inspire tomorrow’s inch.
