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Description
Aproximately 16 x 38
Gouache paints with coloured pencil on coloured matte board
The text along the "spine" was added after via PhotoShop, while the text on the cover is part of the painting.

*** This is technically a re-posting of this illustration. I plan to do so with all my Potter art work building up (hopefully) to having some new stuff to share there after. So if you feel like you've seen this before - you probably have. On the upside, I'm sharing it at a larger resolution and without the DeviantArt watermark on it now ***

From the first day I started this series of illustrations, and I decided each cover was going to be done on a different coloured matte board to give each book a coloured theme... and going back and forth about which color the first book should be... even going so far as re-doing the second book after realizing I'd chosen the wrong colour... this book was one I always knew would be brown. It's one of the books I had firmly imagined in my mind's eye. While I love the series as a whole, this individual book was the first to truly grab me and pull me in to the world of Harry Potter. As for the cover painting itself... I'm generally pleased with it - there will always be things I wish I'd done differently on all my paintings. But I was really happy with how this one came together.

Description
Aproximately 16 x 38
Gouache paints with coloured pencil on coloured matte board
The text along the "spine" was added after via PhotoShop, while the text on the cover is part of the painting.

*** This is technically a re-posting of this illustration. I plan to do so with all my Potter art work building up (hopefully) to having some new stuff to share there after. So if you feel like you've seen this before - you probably have. On the upside, I'm sharing it at a larger resolution and without the DeviantArt watermark on it now ***

From the first day I started this series of illustrations, and I decided each cover was going to be done on a different coloured matte board to give each book a coloured theme... and going back and forth about which color the first book should be... even going so far as re-doing the second book after realizing I'd chosen the wrong colour... this book was one I always knew would be brown. It's one of the books I had firmly imagined in my mind's eye. While I love the series as a whole, this individual book was the first to truly grab me and pull me in to the world of Harry Potter. As for the cover painting itself... I'm generally pleased with it - there will always be things I wish I'd done differently on all my paintings. But I was really happy with how this one came together.