“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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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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The Rusalka, 18” x 24”, oil on hardboard, 2012.
Even though I was given the go-ahead for the “Rusalka” cover, I completed an alternative cover too because I was certain that if the publisher saw this idea completed, he’d go bananas for it instead.
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