Above are the 2 pencil versions and the final painting for the cover of the Grace Flynn novel- Death's Ebb. This will be released in 2016 from PLMII Studios and will be available thru Amazon and other outlets

Been a while since I last posted here- This is an underpainting which I started based on a bust of Beethoven- 14 x11" oil on canvas board-prior to this I'd done a value study in pencil on paper- the familiarity ofthe subject matter allowed me to paint this in about 3-4 hours in one shot. I'll refine it in the next stage after this is totally dried

Since I'm often asked about how I work regarding acrylic mixed with digital, I'm posting an example- on the left is the straight forward acrylic, done in raw umber and white on heavy Hypro paper. On the right is the piece in progress for printing, although not yet finished. The color is added on a layer in color mode, and then I take it into both PS and Painter to refine the image- it usually adds about an extra 2-4 hrs to doing the finished piece

DragonLady-acrylic gouache and pencil 9x12" on bristol board- this is the physical art for a digital piece, meaning I've still got to add the color and background to her

9x12" landscape study- one of many I've been painting recently between other projects

Working on a cover for Heroic Publishing- these are 2 stages in acrylic in progress

for lack of a better title.....anyway, it's the first of a series I began- this one in ink and marker 9x12" or there about