“Hey, that’s a direct lift from a paperback cover by Barye Phillips!” And I respond: guilty as charged. I was inspired to do my own version of a Dell paperback cover that Barye Phillips did in 1961 for the novel “The Golden Hooligan”. I loved the way she had the woman hidden in shadow behind the curtains, [...]
Well, it’s Den and Katherine Wells, the Richard Corben characters! I’ve always loved the older Heavy Metal magazines. Richard Corben always had a unique look to his artwork and hey, “Den” was a good story to boot! I was inspired to work on my own take on his characters and this is the result. Perhaps [...]
Something new, but something that has lived on my computer for an awful long time before I could feel that it was done. It’s gone through so many incarnations; I kept moving things around, adding then taking away snakes, vines, skeletons and clothing. For the longest time, there wasn’t a top I painted on the [...]
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while and have until now only toyed with it. A faux-fifties pulp novel book cover, complete with lusty descriptions to draw you into picking it up and a price that would entice you to buy it. Of course, thirty five cents was the going rate back then, so [...]
When you go about updating a website, there are a few things to go over. Usually one is prone to forget a few things. I’ve found a few images I forgot to add to the gallery here. Some of them are fairly recent, like the one to the left, here in this post (click on it for [...]
Saturday, January 31, 2009
I’m pleased to write that prints are coming back. I’ll be offering prints of a few of my digital images. Some who may have been dropping by this site over the years may remember that I used to have some prints available. I guess it just took me a while to get the [...]
This piece I recently finished was inspired by one of the great illustrators of the last century, Robert Maguire. Ok, so it was more than just inspired… I more or less ripped the idea directly from one of his paperback cover paintings. But only because it was fun to do (in other words, it’s not for selling). Maguire painted [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Recently, I was inspired to get up offa my thang to put an image together for a contest in honor of Frank Frazetta. If you’ve seen my work (or that of countless others), you could see how Mr. Frazetta has influenced innumerable artists over the last forty years or so. I’m no exception. The invitation was irresistible. It took me [...]
One of the things I’ve been doing for fun over the last year is some work for Liquid Silver Books, a publisher of electronic books. You may ask: romance novel covers? Or: e-books have covers? Sure, why not? Even virtual sales need something to draw the buyer. These covers aren’t very far from a lot of images I’ve done before, except [...]
So #1 son and I were at my favorite used paperback bookstore the other day. Not that there are many other used stores around. We found some good science-fiction books, and a couple others I bought solely for the cover work. Buying something for just the cover is something I’ll do now and then…it’s only [...]