This little colored pencil portrait of the Heliopause mascot, Astrhopi the Heliopause Pony, has been kicking around my workspace for several months. As I’ve just finished one big project (the Lucena cover) and am beginning another (Professor Odd Season Two), I took the opportunity to finish her. I am very happy, not least because this …
To close out the year, the decade, and my Planet Horse series, here is Ceres, Queen of the Asteroid Belt. Since I added Pluto (and Charon) last year I felt it would be fitting to pay homage to another important celestial object—and a very important goddess. Like all my Planet Horses this piece was done …
It may not seem like a picture of the Sun as a horse is a particularly seasonal thing to post at Christmastime, but if you consider that celebrations of lights and light-bringers have been observed around the winter solstice for as long as there have been solar gods and heroes to celebrate, then this is …
Now that it’s out in the wild, I’m excited to share the final artwork I made for the cover of Paving the Road to Hell, (Driving Arcana Wheel 2). This one was a long time in the works thanks to its size (18″x24″) and detail (click the image!) and the process used to create it …
I just learned that today is International Dog Day, and as it happens I have just the piece for it! Everyone, this is Daghri the Lake Wolf, Moon-Eyed Dog, She Who Devours and Eater of Evil. Properly she’s another kimaerha, like Astrhopi and Rhondi, and with them creates a quasi Creator-Preserver-Destroyer triad. My thinking went …
What happened was about a year ago it occurred to me that what my publishing company, Heliopause Productions, really needed was a mascot. Someone cute and approachable with a good sense of humor, who represented the best of what my art and stories were like. I was on a plane coming home from AnthroCon 2018 …
A set of five little (3.5″x5″) pieces for the 2018 World Fantasy Artshow that I completed earlier this month! First up, the WITCHY KITTIES! This is Ursula. She could be named after Ursula K. Le Guin, but she’s also got a chicken in the back of her cauldron and that seems reminiscent of Ursula Vernon. …
A quick gander through my online gallery shows a shocking absence! The original cover art for Professor Odd Episode 8: “Chronostrophe“! Colored pencils on 12″x9″ bristol board, 2016. I went through a number of concepts before settling on this one. It makes visual reference to a number of things from the story, and as such makes …
“Treestone” was developed from a drawing in my “Travels in Valdelluna” sketchbook. I had been stagnating on a large graphite pencil piece, and needed to get something finished no matter how quickly. Below is the original cartoon. Valdelluna is a country I’ve been loosely developing for many years. Home of the Mist Spinner, Earbrella, and the …
These were a set of watercolors I did for the Further Confusion Art Show, based on concepts that had been rattling around in my brain for some time. First, a pair of fashionable foxy lads in splendid dresses… And yes, they are boy-foxes. Because I think fun dresses should not be exclusively for ladypeople. Shockingly, …
