Artists materials and techniques

Storm Thorgerson

A surrealist artist and used photography which he edited in photoshop in his work to make the image look out of place in its surroundings (animals cover- inflatable pig over battersea power station 1977)

Derek Riggs 

A contemporary British artist who uses a range of materials to create a well built portfolio including painting portages of David Bowie and Katie Bush.His work for Iron Maiden started as hand sketched designs and later the artworks were painted using pen and ink for the single the twilight zone he used paint and airbrush because the paint slid around on the board, however a lot go his work was painted using gouche, acrylic and alkyd paints on illustration boards but later on he moved onto computer software.

most of the background he created were taken from his knowledge of medieval european christen art.