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New Painting for Uncanny Magazine Cover 2022

Hello Readers,

Evan and I just got home from a long relaxing week at Lake Michigan and my painting, cover of the latest issue of Uncanny has been published!!! The twitter world is calling it “fantastically gay.” :)

Below is the beginning of the rainbow background created for this illustration. I used colored pencils with a bit of airbrush as the base. If you look closely you can see the pencil texture in the final illustration. A lot of fantasy art utilizes a lot of dark colors but for this cover I wanted it to be light and bright. That was the main challenge for this painting, to look dramatic but in a high-key fashion.

The original painting before type treatment.

This sketch below was presented to the team at Uncanny before creating the final image.

This is the plaid design I created for the character’s coat.

Below are some of my past covers with Uncanny Magazine. They are terrific clients doing exceptional work in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

That’s a wrap on this project! Wishing everyone a great July 4th. If you’d like to listen to something spirited and patriotic this week, I highly recommend this interview by Smarther News about Betsy Ross. We listened on our ride home and came away with a lot we didn’t know!

I’m back to work on other projects (and a little play.) You can see that my current research (below) is just miserable work.

Large horse with curly mane leaning on Kirbi Fagan who is smiling.

Image of me in love.

Have a safe and Happy 4th!