“The Cat Bell” painting. Oil on masonite board, 18.25” x 13.25”.
Another cover done for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, under the excellent art direction of Gordon Van Gelder. The story is called “The Cat Bell”, by Esther Friesner, and it’s a Puss-in-Boots kind of story with a really fun ending.
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Just Doing My Job, 18” x 24”, oil on board. 2013. (Available as a print.)
Storytelling is always a challenge to get right. Put too much info into the piece and you’ve put the meaning on with a frontloader. Always better to let your audience put some of the pieces together and maybe fill some of it in with their imagination.
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Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance, 15” x 18”, oil on gessoed papoer. 2010.
The machines/ aliens that come to Earth in the story really have nothing to do with the newborn but I liked the idea of conflating parts of the story by encasing the baby in the weird machine, cyborg-like, screaming in its caul. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had painting was smearing the pigment and oil over the face…
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