Illustrated book for children «Blue Pere»
The blue pen is a book for family reading. Text worked over the book: Zina and Philippe Surova Pictures: Zina Surova Design, Virtue and Color Correction: Philippe Surov
The blue feather is a book about a family boating trip to Ladoga. So the first thing we had to do was «came» four long trips and «paint» the boat’s path on Ladoga’s sheet, tucked behind the patio’s drawing notebook, and the records in the unwashed bag. The stories were written directly on uninhabited hand shhers. There’s a lot of paintings made out of nature.
If you understand the composition not only as the location on the page, but also as the ability to connect space and time in the image, it is it that has helped to bring together the wind, waves, moss, storms, fog, islands, nerves and teas… the purpose of the composition of this book, both literary and graphic, is to enable the reader to see with us a moon-floating, ale sails, blueberry beads and, during the reading and examination of the book, to sink into the mysterious world of Karel nature. The key, culmination points are: the number of whites at a turning point (there are very bright and inverse dark illustrations), the color accents (there are very bright and vice versa), the composition with active diagonals, and the low or high horizon. There’s a turn around where Ladoga is shown as a planet. The book also uses other options for building image space.
Special attention is paid to the «entry» into the book. The sequence: cross-float, forzac, avantile, title, first turns, has been resolved as a single path to be followed by the reader. Active use is made of white, it alternates with blue, which creates the mood for a water trip. The blue pen is a visual book where authors draw illustrations and write texts themselves. The text and collage in this book form a single piece of narrative: verbal and visual. No editorials were carried out without a neighbourhood of illustrations.
The main impression of the march is the round granite boulders of the islands. It was their natural surface covered with lichens that made it possible to choose collage as the main illustration technique. To transmit the surface of the stones and trees, a fact sheet was selected: the sheets of the coloured cardboard were toned by a dry brush. Color accents and invoices vary depending on the content and mood of the turns.
For the main set, «Circe Rounded Studio» (Regular, Alt Extra Gold) was selected. His round, clear letters overlap with the plastic of the illustrations. The colour of the fatty title drawing becomes a supporting accent. Hand-cut names are used to shape the overturning, title and end of the illustration. This man-made excise font provides a link between font design and illustrations. The book also contains handwritten inscriptions. For example, at a turning point where the hero signs the views of the gulls he has met. This appointment sends us to the traveller’s diaries.
This book is intended for domestic family reading and review. To do so, a user-friendly format of 210×240 mm will allow readers to evaluate the visual part of the book. The ratio of page 7/8 creates a beautiful format that artists sometimes call «active square». Pictures are reproduced in original size, without a reduction. Collar illustrations are hand-made, using coloured matted cardboard, coloured painting papers, acrylics. To print this book, it selects a crumbled mat paper because it transmits well the color palette of collage illustrations. It does not create an excessively glossy surface that contradicts the mood and content of the book. The cover of the 7bc, white, is under matte film, and the color elements of the illustration and the font of the name are highlighted by UV-cluck. The Forzac print uses blue panton.
The book is scheduled to be released in April 2025.
