Apotropaion with Serpents in terra cotta.
You— yes, you, Creative-friend, you literally make something out of nothing. You are the Pie-Maker and can make endless amounts of pie. A long as you’re alive and creating, there’s no shortage of pie. There’s no need to compete with anyone other than yourself.
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Is green my favorite color? Uh, yeah.
Several years ago, I put aside all friendly warnings and dismissed my trepidation and started mixing my own glazes…
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All coils firing in my warp reactor core.
When I began using my kiln in 2016, I began keeping a log of the hours that each firing took to achieve a certain cone or temperature. For a few years, the number of hours really didn’t change too much unless the kiln was really loaded but then I noticed…
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The Komodo Dragon interior spread was flopped right and used for the wraparound cover.
When I was just starting out in freelancing in 1992, company, Charlesbridge, contacted me to do the children’s book Creepy Creatures: Do They Scare You? I was utterly fascinated with getting to do the research to make the art. My very first book would be a bunch of the coolest animals! Teeth! Claws! Scales! Spines! Danger and grossness! Hooray!!
Read MoreThe great and venerable Western Publishing CO. sadly, was bought out by St Martin’s Press in the 90s but not before I got the chance to work with them on 5 books and a few pop up covers.
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Digital cover art. The 2023 Old Farmer’s Almanac calendar which can be found at your local ag center or big hardware store.
In 2003, I began doing the Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Calendars for Yankee Publishing and today …20 years later, I’m still at it, working on 2024’s calendar.
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“Letterlocked” (WIP detail), 36” x 24” oil on hardboard. 2022
Anyone interested in becoming a freelance illustrator first needs to develop a cohesive portfolio. If you’ve been making images for a while and are acquiring many that are showing a particular personal style and content, then choosing…
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My 2022 wall space at IlluXCon!
Since 2007, Pat and Jeannie Wilshire have organized a group of artists for IlluXCon, a collectors’ show of fantasy art, which started in Altoona PA, and is now hosted by The GoggleWorks venue in Reading PA.
Read MoreI brought this recent drawing, “Death To the Dictator”, to IlluXCon 2022. Like most of my work, when I look at it, I remember where I was or what was happening at the time, perhaps down to what music I was listening to. All of my work is freighted with meaning for me, it becomes a sticky note of my space in the world…
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