Just arrived yesterday in my mailbox — the December issue of ImagineFX Magazine, #64. Inside is a deluxe six-page interview featuring Yours Truly. Above is the opening spread. I’m still trying to figure out how the editorial staff crammed so much art and text onto six pages and made it flow so naturally. There’s a…
Happy day here: just received SPECTRUM 17: THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY FANTASTIC ART. This is one of the year’s big art celebrations — a juried competition that annually selects the best in sf/f art and compiles the selections into one breathtaking collection.The cover illustration this year is by one of my favorite artists, Gregory Manchess,…
(Photos, clockwise from top: My Art Show display at FenCon; Vincent Villafranca’s work-in-progress THE DOGS OF WAR; Rie Sheridan Rose in full Victorian regalia) Took me a few days to post this, but before this week disappears, I wanted to say a few words about this year’s Fencon in Dallas, TX (Addison, TX, to be…
Here’s one of my interior illustrations from Michael Moorcock’s ELRIC: SWORDS AND ROSES, forthcoming in December from Del Rey. This original is pencil on illustration board, with a bit of white acrylic for good measure. It debuted at Dragon*Con this past weekend and will be on display at Fencon in Dallas next week, along with…
Here’s my cover illustration for Sheri S. Tepper’s THE WATERS RISING, which recently released in hardcover from HarperCollins/Eos. This cover art has surprised me with the amount of enthusiasm expressed for it by readers and booksellers. Thanks to all for saying so before I even had a chance to post. Much appreciated. 🙂
Dragon*Con 2010 is a wrap. What a show. I’m still assessing it. This show’s definitely on my radar from here on. This was my first Dragon*Con as an exhibitor and guest artist, and I was massively impressed. Huge turnouts at panels, a thriving art show, great energy, great people, terrific marketing, superior guest services from…
Here’s a map showing where you can find me at this year’s Dragon*Con. I’ll be featured in the Art Show at the Hyatt Regency, with a full art display plus art books, prints and limited edition sets for sale. You can find me at a table in front of my display for at least a…
Apologies. It’s been a while since I stopped by to update here. Good news: on August 6th, I was awarded a Chesley Award for Best Magazine Cover Illustration for my cover art for the September 2009 issue of ASIMOV’S (pictured here). The awards were announced by ASFA in Raleigh, NC at the North American Science…
(clockwise from top left: Michael Sheen & me; the art of Dave Seeley; my booth at #4600 of SDCC) This was my first time ever as a booth exhibitor at a San Diego Comic-Con. I expected it to be grueling. I hoped it would be a learning experience, as well as successful. It was all…
I’ve got a brand-new art item debuting at Booth #4600 at San Diego Comic-Con this week. It’s called JOHN PICACIO / 2010 LIMITED EDITION and it’s a 5″x7″ set of archival prints featuring some of my recent works, printed on thick Hahnemuhle archival paper. Each set contains a unique 5″x7″ original drawing on heavy Strathmore…