Cover illustration for Judy Spencer’s ‘The Girl in the Birdbath’
About the project
Cover illustration for ‘The Girl in the Birdbath’, the new contemporary fantasy romance novel by author Judy Spencer.
The garden
For the cover I worked with two important elements from the book: the garden and a sunflower. In the book Bill meets the girl in the birdbath in his garden, and I wanted to capture that natural, garden-vibe in the cover. By working with plants, flowers and natural foliage I built the composition of the garden. To further explore the natural theme I worked with a color palette inspired by Monet’s water lilies paintings.
The sunflower
The birdbath mentioned in the book has the shape of a sunflower, a beautiful shape to incorporate in the cover! I designed a mandala-like sunflower to embellish the title, giving it just that extra magic that’s in the book as well.
