Historic Buildings Cover

For this cover the first idea i had was brick work in the same style as the poppies i thought of this because when i was looking at the church the brickwork looked different colours so i did a lino print as i thought this would be the best way to get the brick texture.

 

 I played around with them in Photoshop to get the pattern and size i wanted them to be.

 

 

And this was the outcome i really like it, but decided not to use this just purely because i thought its a bit predictable to use for an historic building cover.

So instead i started on a new pattern i thought of using the shape of the stainglass window on the church as a base for this pattern, so i drew a black outline of the window, and i pressed some vibrant ink colours to represent the glass, but when i tried to make it work on the cover in the same layout as the poppies it looked wrong.

 

 

 

 

So i took the same pattern and made it smaller and repeated it to make a sort of flower pattern, and used that in the layout and that worked, the only problem i have now is to make a background that will compliment both this cover and the wartime cover..