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That was one of the album covers by my uncle, Peter Schmidt. He was my dad's older half brother, from my grandmother's first marriage, hence the difference in surnames. The other covers by him were ‘Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)’ and ‘Before and After Science’. For the former my uncle used a lithograph technique he'd developed that varied the colours of each print. The latter was subtitled ‘14 Songs’ and had a limited edition (the first 1,000 copies) with four prints of my uncle's watercolours (he actually used acrylics. When my parents asked him for advice on what paints to get me he recommended the same acrylics he used. They were very versatile and could be used thickly, like ‘Fainting in Coils’ (as the Mock Turtle describes it in ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’: “The drawling master was an old Conger eel. He taught us drawling, stretching and fainting in coils”. The Mock Turtle's teacher was a sea turtle. “Why did you call him tortoise if he was a turtle?” asked Alice. “We called him tortoise because he taught us!”. Sorry, I digress), or diluted like watercolours). The pen and ink outlines of those prints were on the back cover.

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