Ancient Greece - This is the first cover I fully designed the simplistic art style used throughout the series. I think this is my favourite of the 10 covers. It may be the warm colour palette of the mediterranean. I was originally in two minds about adding the ceramic pots, added later in the pencil rough. I'm glad I did.
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The Stone Age to the Iron Age - I was inspired by cave painting art. In the rough only a small part had cave painting. In the final artwork I used more of the cow style and moved it to bottom right as a herd. I then recreated another cave painting style of deer, top right. I love the central vertical road splitting the art leading the eye to the entrance to the village at the top.
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Invaders - I had great fun designing the shields on the Viking ship. Even though they are quite small on the page.
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Ancient Egypt - I added hieroglyphs to the Red Sea Hills Range, this being an important part of recording Egyptian history and their language. I love the camels!.
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The Maya - I had to change the sculpted figure, bottom right, simple because I couldn't find the original reference source to work from.
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The Victorian Times - There was a balance here to show the filth and dirt of the industrial age without it looking too bleak or dull, and to also try to celebrate our Victorian heritage.
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Living Memories - A few layout changes from the rough to the finished art, I made more use of the food tins, and I originally had a man carrying the food basket in a Supermarket, but at the time of the first Supermarkets men rarely went shopping for food or did the weekly shop.
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World Events - My favourite part of this artwork is showing the journey of Amy Johnson's flight from England to Australia, with all the stops on the way.
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Significant People - My favourite part of this artwork is the star field in the background of the astronaut which is also the wounded soldiers blanket.
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The series of covers was received very favourably and was deemed a great success.
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The Teacher's Guide has items and people from all pupil books. This was like putting a puzzle together and you don't have the lid to tell what it looks like!
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Available to buy online. https://collins.co.uk/pages/primary-history-collins-primary-history
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