Album Cover Challenge 23 by taffy

Album Cover Challenge 23

Thank you for your wonderful response to my moody tree shot yesterday! It was on trending and then today showed up on PP! Thank you!!
For today's posting, I've never done the album cover challenge before and it was fun (even though when I finally was happy with what I had done, I realized it was a rectangle rather than a square and had to start over!). But I recommend it, especially for a day like today that was uninspiring in terms of photos. The base for the album cover were some tiny purple flowers in a bouquet Jim had brought home earlier this week. I actually took photos of the flowers for the camera setting challenge on using your flash for fill light, but they weren't that interesting.
The band's name, Gerard of Cremona, was an Italian translator (c. 1114–1187) of scientific books from Arabic into Latin, working in Toledo Spain. The album name comes from a quote by the American actress, Bette Davis: "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together." From The Lonely Life, 1962.
Information on the challenge: http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/21217/album-cover-challenge-23-let-s-get-started

Alternative shot in b&w album - skyline: http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2014-02-23
Love this! My first time this week too!
February 24th, 2014  
Great colors
February 24th, 2014  
Fabulous! I have done a few of these. They are definitely harder then you think at first.
February 24th, 2014  
@luvmynynix I loved yours, Laurie!! Thanks for the encouraging comment!
February 24th, 2014  
It all came together really well, the colors, the fonts and the processing! Great work, as always! :)
February 24th, 2014  
Oh and thank you so much! I might be a little addicted now! :) Although who knows...next time I might get and article and quote that don't provide such possibilities! We'll see!
February 24th, 2014  
I did mine for the first time this week too. We must all be on the same page. I love this! Very cool!
February 24th, 2014  
Spectacular picture.
February 24th, 2014  
Congratulation on making Trending Page. Well deserved.
February 24th, 2014  
This is so different and beautiful a fav
February 24th, 2014  
POP Art---like it !!
February 24th, 2014  
Great for the challenge, great work -looks very real
February 24th, 2014  
Great cover and interpretation for the challenge, love the clour and processing. Sounds very prog rock.
February 24th, 2014  
Fabulous response to the challenge
February 24th, 2014  
well done...
February 24th, 2014  
Wow! Another jaw dropper! Super colors...awesome composition!
Big congrats on the PP! Well done!
February 24th, 2014  
Terrific album cover. Beautiful colours.
February 24th, 2014  
Nice response to this challenge, love the colour and font.
February 24th, 2014  
This is beautiful!
February 24th, 2014  
Love the colours. Makes me think of soothing instrumental music!
February 24th, 2014  
I just did this challenge for the first time a couple if weeks ago. It's fun! This turned out great! I love that the text colors match the flowers.
February 24th, 2014  
Clever, thoughtful illustration of an interesting philosophy.
February 24th, 2014  
Great processing and colours
February 24th, 2014  
They are fun- I haven't done one in a while. Maybe today it it's still running. Excellent job for the first time!
February 24th, 2014  
Beautifully done,great colours!!
February 24th, 2014  
Purple and black complement each other so well! Cool processing!
February 24th, 2014  
Congrats on PP love this the graphics and the vibrant flower heads superb image
February 24th, 2014  
Very creative and excellent processing.
February 24th, 2014  
Very well done. This makes me curious as to what kind of music I will find on the albumn? I love the Bette Davis quote.
February 24th, 2014  
Great processing love the purple and black combination!
Congrats on getting on the trending page.
February 24th, 2014  
Very interesting! Love the colours and superb execution Taffy!
February 24th, 2014  
Very cool album cover Taffy
February 24th, 2014  
fun album cover here - nice colours and idea (and yes fun to do these)
February 24th, 2014  
Really fascinating take on this!
February 24th, 2014  
Great looking album cover. Love it.
February 24th, 2014  
Besides being a great album cover it a really pretty image. Wonderful purple color (my favorite) Makes me want to listen to their music....if only!!
February 25th, 2014  
nice
February 26th, 2014  
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