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.

Image of me in love.

Have a safe and Happy 4th!