Yay! Grass is Alligators was released last week! You can get it at Bandcamp, iTunes or Amazon! You can also listen to it on Spotify! Your best bet is to order the real CD from Bandcamp!
About The Cover Art
The title track is a simple little ditty about a game that we played as kids in our back yard. I knew that the album cover had to include a swing set and at least one alligator. The image below was my first draft of an album cover, done with crayon on construction paper. It captured the spirit of what I was going for but it didn’t quite feel right:
One day I was eating lunch by myself and decided that I wanted to include a reference to every song from the album on artwork that spans the back and front cover. I made the following sketch on the inside cover of my car’s owner’s manual while scarfing down my Wendy’s:
When I got home that day, I re-drew the image on paper making some adjustments and it ended up looking like this:
Later that week I scanned the image. Then over the next several days I drew the actual album art into Photoshop using a Bamboo tablet. And voilà, the final product!:
Have you found the references to all of the songs in the artwork of your Grass Is Alligators CD?
(Hint: if you stream the songs over at Bandcamp, a different image appears as you play each song, most of the answers can be found in those images!).
If you don’t have a CD yet, go order your physical copy of the audio compact disc at Bandcamp!
Have a tolerable Monday!
