Looking to commission cover art from a real artist, no AI. Retro sci-fi space cowboy stuff, nice and pulpy! If that’s your jam or the jam of an artist in your Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, I’d love to see some of your work. Thanks!
It's #DinosaurDay, so here's an extant (Eurasian wren, _Troglodytes troglodytes_) and an extinct one (_Lambeosaurus lambei_). Both watercolours; the wren is painted on paper-backed silk, and the lambeosaur is painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks.
Thrilled to take a crack at my first wraparound cover, done for @scumbelievable.bsky.social's "dark Dinotopia" novella WYRM. I digitally laid out a medieval tapestry of a battle of men but realized getting the right amount of detail vs my preferred level of "finish" would need an increase in scale
The aurora only pushed far enough south last night for about ten minutes, then was gone. Managed to snap a shot from my house. Was lower to the horizon this time.
This fierce fellow has risen to the challenge! This is 7 of Wands from the upcoming 78 Tarot Masters Medieval deck (2025). I'm one of 10 artists creating 8 cards for this deck. I'm excited to start revealing them here!
The painting is 6x10 inches, created with ink, watercolor, and acryla gouache.
I'll be taking part in the next 78 Tarot project, Nautical the New Wave. They've selected an older, favorite painting of mine for the oracle deck. I'm pleased to contribute to another one of their decks!
"the witch", 16x20 cut paper, acrylic, oils. More old stuff because I feel like it and because my next tarot card is taking much longer than I first thought. This is for a South Korean movie "The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion", highly recommend.
SUNFLOWER (2010)
Acrylic on Panel - 12" x 18"
It's her sanctuary...an echo of something I experienced when I was younger.
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As folklore reminds us, the border between any two things is a traditional place of enchantment: the bridge between two river banks, the wall between the woodlands and the hills, and those interstitial realms where cultures, landscapes, languages, art forms and genres meet.
