{"id":997,"date":"2023-12-03T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:26:57","slug":"the-eye-of-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/2023\/997","title":{"rendered":"Album Cover: &#8220;The Eye of the Storm&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Album cover for the independent music release <em>The Eye of the Storm<\/em>, by Garrett Kearns. I was tasked with making an album cover depicting a storm, featuring fire and lightning bolts. It had to feel rather threatening, wondrous, and a tad psychedelic too. I went with a split palette and atmosphere, and had the layout follow the swirl of an S-shaped tornado. The spiral is split at the top to reveal the yellow of the sky, and is reminiscent of an eye &#8212; thus echoing the title of the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The client wanted the focus to be put on the art first and foremost, which is why the text was rendered in a way that made it into a secondary focus point. The lettering was painted over by hand to ensure a seamless transition with the texture of the artwork, and allow for more light effects. I made it so that the musician&#8217;s name felt lit up in the centre by the bolt of light, thus disappearing into the darkness on the edges. On the contrary, the album&#8217;s title is so bright and fiery that it meddles with the surrounding fire, subtly hidden there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information about Garrett Kearns and <em>The Eye of the Storm<\/em> here: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2TNGD48AEGEdAaovIhpqkz\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2TNGD48AEGEdAaovIhpqkz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:69px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-garrett-kearns-album-cover-post-process-final.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-garrett-kearns-album-cover-post-process-final.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-garrett-kearns-album-cover-post-process-final-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-garrett-kearns-album-cover-post-process-final-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-garrett-kearns-album-cover-post-process-final-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-garrett-kearns-album-cover-post-process-final-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Final Album Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Album cover for the independent music release The Eye of the Storm, by Garrett Kearns. I was tasked with making an album cover depicting a storm, featuring fire and lightning bolts. It had to feel rather threatening, wondrous, and a tad psychedelic too. I went with a split palette and atmosphere, and had the layout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"portfolio-page","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustrated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}