{"id":386,"date":"2009-01-15T13:18:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2024-01-09T22:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T04:14:56","slug":"cover-me-the-art-of-jose-roberto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/cover-me-the-art-of-jose-roberto\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me: The Art of Jose Roberto"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most common questions I get regarding Timely Persuasion<\/em> is about the cover artwork. Where did it come from? How does it relate to the plot? Is that you in the picture? I was surprised to realize I haven’t told that story on this blog before now.<\/p>\n

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The original painting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Way back in June of 2005 I stumbled onto a (now defunct) surrealist art website based out of the UK called the Hammond Gallery. \u00a0It turned into an extended Internet time wasting expedition as I got lost in the site and spent a couple of hours browsing the various paintings and artists they had listed. \u00a0I was particularly fascinated by the work of an artist named Jos\u00e9 Roberto<\/a>. \u00a0And when I saw a piece of his entitled “Lost In Time,” I immediately stopped and said “That should be the cover to Timely Persuasion<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I loved the title for starters. \u00a0The clock played nicely with the time travel theme. \u00a0The floating, egg yolk face about to drip off the table could symbolize what the narrator was experiencing. (It also inspired the narrator’s “new look” in the alternate present when I rewrote parts of that scene to resemble the cover art.) But what I loved most of all was the shadowy man of mystery towards the upper right hand corner, who in my mind has always been the old man standing at a distance while observing and influencing the whole series of events.<\/p>\n

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Modified novel cover version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately the email address for the artist on the Hammond Gallery site was invalid. Google searches for his name proved elusive as well. (Today his website is the first hit for his name, but that wasn’t the case in 2005.) \u00a0Eventually my wife managed to track him down via a Google Groups reference to his SketchPet.com<\/a> project\/business.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 turned out to be a very kind and generous guy in addition to a wonderful artistic talent. \u00a0He granted permission for me to use “Lost In Time” as the book cover and even sent me a slightly modified high res file that allowed some extra room at the top and bottom for the title and author credit while better fitting the dimensions of the paperback. I can’t thank the guy enough for being so helpful and down to earth.<\/p>\n

You can check out Jos\u00e9’s paintings, sketches, and digital works at his website, jmrcreations.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Be sure to check out an original sketch of “Lost In Time” in his second gallery<\/a> of sketches.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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