Working on Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
While I work on getting Oz together for Rich’s Lyra, we are working on other books!
One of them is Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees, Neil Gaiman says; Lud as “one of the finest [fantasy novels] in the English language…. It is a little golden miracle of a book.” He described Mirrlees’s writing as “elegant, supple, effective and haunting: the author demands a great deal from her readers, which she repays many times over.” He says that it is one of his top ten favourite books.
Scott McKowen is the illustrator for the novel, he is creating over thirty, letterpress relief print illustrations for the book! Here he shows us his tools and work in progress of the finished piece: ‘My tools are all here — no.11 x-acto blade, an engraving burin when I need an even finer line, an old Castel-Faber technical pen with black ink (for correcting errors), magnifying lupe attached to the swing-arm of an old desk lamp (held on with jury-rigged plastic plumbing hardware), and a brush for sweeping away the insidious ink dust….’
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