Grab your towel and hold on for an out-of-this-world ride, coming from Wraithmarked books!
Looking forward to sharing the rest of this artwork created for the project.
..Numerous design hoops to jump through including ~ 8 various species of aliens, having the image work as a CD cover, full sized poster, AND magazine cover.
Lucky to still have this in our family collection!
Closing out my game art post series, saving one of the best for last.
Star War Galaxies
33" x 45" Oil on Panel 2003
Channeled quite a bit of passion into this piece, visualizing a young Han Solo and Chewbacca as an advertising piece for the video game..
LMAF....damn that is funny!
A reinforcement of my principles to provide art to a client to the best of my abilities, but detach myself from how the final illustration will be used.
20" x 30" Oil on Panel 1994
Here is today's addition to:
That was Donato Giancola??
My first video game cover barely a year into my professional career. Created for the (un)forgettable game
'Revengers of Vengeance!'
What a title. What quotes. What type design. A few more fonts could have been used...
A commission related to Kieth Parkinson's work, this one for a bookcover for the game Everquest. Kieth was the originating artist executing the first 5 advertising and cover paintings for the game.
What a shadow to work under!
EverQuest 10th Anniversary
25" x 40" Oil on Panel 2008
Collection of Sony
design (a triptych composition). To further honor Keith, I placed him as one of the characters on the left side, charging forth at the side of his companions.
Your actions are immortal Keith, thank you for the dreams you helped inspire.
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
27" x 60" Oil on Panel 2007
as he was dying from cancer.
Keith's work was a massive inspiration to me as a young gamer, even before I realized I could become an artist. I threw my artistic soul into this commission knowing where the project came from, it had a numerous check list of elements and...
One the most complex, and humbling, images I have tackled as an illustrator - Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.
I was commissioned for this after Kieth Parkinson requested that I be contacted to execute this work for a company he helped create, Sigil Games. Keith could not do the work himself...
Great life drawing session at the Society of Illustrators, NY this past Wednesday. Sophia was a real pro, striking very dynamic poses for the whole evening.
I enjoy being not burdened with conceptual and compositional decision making, just concentrate on capturing information/gesture from the model.
cannons destined to the outskirts of Boston during the Revolutionary War.
While my piece is not fully historical, it certainly works for me as an allegory of American history. Thanks to Fred Harper, Mark Texeira, and Chad Pidgeon as models!
The piece references three main character types you can play in the game, and as a native Vermonter, wanted to make this a snow scene!
I leaned into a heavy nod to Tom Lovell's amazing work of 'Noble Train of Artillery' which depicts the hauling of Fort Ticonderoga's...
A follow up games' artwork posts from the Age of Empires III.
Created as an advertising image, I based the work on a historical site, Fort Ticonderoga in New York, around the time of the French and Indian War of the 1740's.
Allegory for the American Empire
36" x 48" Oil on Panel. 2004
Thank you Joshua. Yes, disappointing how marketing ‘knows’ what is better for an image, but obviously does not! There are subtle balances of shape, color, design which all are part of a harmonic composition.
Art for Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
The final image which appeared as the cover to the game was heavily modified by the marketing department, reiterating why I do not make paintings for 'reproduction'.
24" x 36" Oil on Panel 2004
Congratulations to Helen for being the winning name drawn for my 'Drawing Drawing' lottery give away at OAX convention last weekend.
'Mars Violet - What Did You Say?'
My thanks to Bill Cox, Kasra Ghanbari & Tatiana Dykes for putting on a warm welcome!
Good news on the front for Fantasy and Science Fiction Narrative Art. A new museum in the works for Altoona and the genre community. Looking forward to seeing this open next year (hopefully)!
www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-n...
Predating my Earth and Sea series, but tapping into the tragic, fragile narratives learned from Vincent Desiderio while working as his assist. in the mid 90's.
Executed as a center panel of a triptych private commission for Jane and Howard Frank in 2001.
Eric Bright-eyes
34" x 34" Oil on Panel 2001
"We may infer from these facts, what havoc the introduction of any new beast of prey must cause in a country, before the instincts of the indigenous inhabitants have become adapted to the stranger's craft or power."
-Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
Earth and Sea series.
A bit of self reflection as we are portrayed as the strangers here. My love and respect for science runs through all my work, from the fantastic to the historical.
Darwin: The Strangers With Craft
48" x 48" Oil on Pnel 2010
private collection
Earth and Sea series painting featuring my daughters Naomi and Cecilia.
Inspired by Sir Isaac Newton’s quote:
“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”
Knowledge
36" x 48" Oil on Panel 2010
Posted the entire Earth and Sea series of oil paintings on the MuddyColors blog, link:
www.muddycolors.com/2026/02/eart...
It is always a pleasure to tap into these deep creative motivators as an artist.
Mermaid-Search for Mother study
21”x21” oil on panel 2011
Resides in our home. I have not sold it yet.
One of the first oil paintings from the Earth & Sea series, and likely one of the most popular.
Thank you to models Grant Newton and my daughter Naomi for making this a successful painting!
Progeny
36" x 60" Oil on Panel 2009
private collection
An early oil painting from the Earth & Sea series, before I realized I was making a series!
Created for a gallery exhibit in 2009 and a take on tragic empathetic narrative moments.
Shaman's Loss
36" x 48" Oil on Panel 2009
Exploring narratives which I do not want to experience but recognize that others have likely traveled through. I find I am a better person when I can empathetically related to others feelings and experiences.
Orphaned
48" x 36" Oil on Panel 2010
Cover painting for a L.E. Modesitt, Jr novel 'Scholar' executed while I was engaged with my Earth & Sea series. Of course I would choose a moment from the narrative in which the protagonist is at a ship wreck on the shoreline!
Scholar- Robinson Crusoe
48" x 36" Oil on Panel 2011
An oil painting from the Earth & Sea series, created for my first exhibit in 2011 at the Demato Gallery in Sag Harbor.
I used to assign this novel for my students at SVA to interpret, finding a way to read and visualize between the lines.
Santiago -The Old Man and the Sea
36" x 48" Oil on Panel 2010
Another from the Earth and Sea series featuring my daughter Cecilia as the young child.
Search for Mother
36" x 48" Oil on Panel 2012
