Art-work for Book Cover - Alistair Grim's Odditorium
Disney-Hyperion Book Publisher's commissioned me to create an art-work for a new novel by Gregory Funaro. I thought it would be interesting to share with you some photos of the work in-progress, along with the final book-cover design.
'For
twelve year old Grubb, life as a chimney sweep in the English
countryside has always been hard. Apprenticed to a brutal master sweep
named Mr. Smears, Grubb wants nothing more than a life free from sooty
toil and endless
verbal abuse. After a straw that broke the camel's back incident at a
local inn threatened his very well-being, Grubb stows away in a trunk
belonging to one of the guests. Soon the boy finds himself whisked away
by coach to the teeming streets of London and
plopped in the middle of a very odd house of mechanical wonders and
amazing magic called the Odditorium by its wildly eccentric owner
Alistair Grimm. When Grubb pops out of the bag he is allowed to stay
on, as help. And thus begin an amazing tale that is
not only filled with adventure and mystery but is also the moving story
of one boy'smagical journey toward acceptance and self-discovery'.
The novel will be released in January 2015
