A Sense of Proportion: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Frank Belknap Long This particular drawing was done soon after my wife and I spent a week in Paris. It owes a lot to the outstanding photographs of Eugene Atget. With many of the illustrations I do for Hippocampus Press I try to avoid any lines but instead create works using Stripping - a drawing entirely made from dots done one dot a time. It's labor intensive but I enjoy the mezzotint or etching like final effect.
A type of tribute to the art and craft of building something with the written word. To be announced book cover. from Hippocampus Press.
In the 30's during the depression if you were a writer in rural America the mail and the mailbox was your lifeline. You sent your manuscripts by mail and received your essential payment by mail. To certain minds of a special breed of writer with incredible imaginations at the time of The Great Depression the ordinary the mail, the mailbox became something more ...
Illustration of Lovecraft's favorite outdoor writing location near Providence Rhode Island. Illustration for the Collected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft by Hippocampus Press
H. P. Lovecraft and especially Clark Ashton Smith were talked about at length in the Surrealists Journal VVV published in 1942. Smith in the booklet First Papers of Surrealism, and later both Lovecraft and Smith in VVV in the article Such Pulps as Dreams are Made of. Smith lived in a primitive rural cabin with a low stone wall that he built surrounding it. The stone wall was in a sense his poetry and stories ...a type of wall from the industrialized world and its masses.
Pen Drawing of Lovecraft 's home. While Andre Breton was living in New Youk city during WW2, he wrote about something he called The Great Invisibles." That idea or concept bears a remarkable resemblance to the concepts behind Lovecraft's work. Breton's Great Invisibles did not capture much attention, so the direction was not developed. Lovecraft's own work would not start to become truly noticed until the late 60's and 1970's. In both cases as Lovecraft would say the stars were not right yet.
H. P. Lovecraft was born on the 20th of August at No. 454 (then numbered 194) Angell Street, in the city of Providence.
The presence of H. P. Lovecraft. H. P. Lovecraft was born on the 20th of August at No. 454 (then numbered 194) Angell Street, in the city of Providence.
Illustration from Tangata by Scott Nicolay
Interior Illustration from Tangata by Scott Nicolay
Interior Illustration from Tangata by Scott Nicolay
The artwork for the wrap around cover painting by myself and with seven black and white interior illustrations. Nicolay's "Do You Like to Look At Monsters?" received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 2015. Oil Paint on Board. 22" x 28"
A wrap around cover painting by myself and with seven black and white interior illustrations. Nicolay's "Do You Like to Look At Monsters?" received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 2015.
Back Cove oil painting for "And at my Back I Always Hear" by Scott Nicolay
I did the front cover painting and the back cover painting for the second collection of stories by Scott Nicolay.
I had a solo exhibit in Seattle and Nujabes stopped in and purchased two of my paintings. One was 12"x12" and that one was used for the cover of his CD Modal Soul. The other was 40"x30." I've had people contact me and visit me from different places in America, South America, and Europe concerning Modal Soul. The legendary Nujabes is known for his instrumental mix of hip-hop, soul, and jazz, etc. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO5XcuQe_fLJVI3sZ0LmGCA
The artwork commission I did for the outstanding Japanese musician ZORN.
"Step into the raw, unflinching world of War and the Girl, by Japanese rapper ZORN, This poignant hip-hop ballad, layered with vivid storytelling, paints a devastating picture of a young girl’s survival during and after the Tokyo bombings, with lyrics like “爆弾の雨が注ぐ東京” (a rain of bombs pours on Tokyo) and “死体の下で生き延びた” (surviving under corpses.") https://zorn.tokyo/zorn_war-and-the-girl/
Two ink drawings done for Centipede Press. The first one is from a visit to the Poe cometary. In the bottom one the Moon has been pulled down from the sky. In the sky the star cluster Pleiades. https://www.centipedepress.com/authors/verba.html
Illustration for the publication "My First" - Illustration from the song Early Roman Kings by Bob Dylan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1d3STzwh0
Illustration for the publication "My First" - Illustration from the song Early Roman Kings by Bob Dylan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1d3STzwh0