Mandrake's Folly
Scratchboard

"Mandrake's Folly" was commissioned to illustrate a story in the anthology Absolute Visions, a spaceship mystery by Suzanne Palmer. It's a bit of an homage (while being nothing like as good, alas) to the work of Lynd Ward, who did marvelous psychological woodcut illustrations in the 1930s.

Airship
Graphite on paper

This is a pencil rendering of a fantasy airship which was created for a roleplaying game.

Thanks to Corey Liss, M. Garfinkle, Richard Garfinkle, and Robert Ellis for permission to show this drawing.

Bus Stop
Pen and ink on paper

With this drawing I was playing with the idea of pulp fiction, of the mysterious fixations of the early pulp era, and the menacing figures. It was also a good opportunity to illuminate stark lighting effects. I also enjoy drawing historical scenes and garments, I must admit.

Selkie
White Prismacolor pencil on paper

Selkies were seal-women in Icelandic, Irish and Scottish folklore. They took the form of women, but could return to the sea in their sealskins. I enjoyed the idea of a Puritan New Englander encountering such a thing on the rocky coast of northern Massachusetts.

Selkie Wife
Graphite on paper

This was a different approach I took to the selkie myth. Sometimes selkies would marry humans, but often they had to return to the sea.