Anna and Elena Balbusso
SHANNON ASSOCIATES - New York
Richard II, portrait, cover art
Cover art for the book Richard II by Laura Ashe. January 2016. The title is part of the "Penguin Monarchs", series of books about Britain’s kings and queens. It is the ambitious new publishing project from Penguin, which will see 45 titles. Each one about a different English/British Monarch. The client request is to represent the monarchs artistically, rather than representationally. We imagined the hair as many tangled wires for transmitting the tension, the psychological obsession. We wanted to give our own free interpretation. Mixed media: gouache, pencil, pen, digital
Richard II