New artwork

I've just got 'round to putting up a portfolio page of some of my artwork; currently you can reach it by clicking on "Paintings and Drawings" just under the header at the top of the page.

I've been meaning to do so for ages, and was finally prompted to by this painting for the ArtOrder's Art Evolution Challenge. The challenge was to depict a character described simply as "a young female human wizard with black hair who always wears white trimmed in gold."

It's definitely worth checking out the full line-up; there are a lot of entries, and a number of them are really amazing.

The Emperor of North America

This is my cover painting for John McNichol's The Emperor of North America, book two of the Young Chesterton Chronicles.  It'll be hitting the shelves this fall, published by Bezalel Books.  For those of you not familiar with the series, it's steampunk alternate-history with authors G.K. Chesterton and H.G. Wells as the main characters.  In book one, The Tripods Attack! (published by Sophia Institute Press), Gil and Herb fought off a Martian invasion, assisted by Father Brown (from Chesterton's mystery stories); the second book has got flying assassins, steam-powered cyborg cowboys, zeppelins, and a flying city (home of Emperor Norton I).

The painting is acrylic on mat board, 13 1/4" x 17 3/8".