Coloured PrintsI have always been fascinated by medieval woodcut artwork since an early age. Over the last 30 years, I have created many "medieval" style woodcuts for a variety of clients in a large number of their publications and applications. It is surprising just how well the style works with today's publishing and even software. I continue to be commissioned to create my woodcut-style artwork. The art piece to the right is just one of my recent commission examples, which was created in a package of 150 final art pieces for a USA based software company.
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Sea Monster illustration from a recent 150 piece commission. Original art is hand rendered then as vector art.
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Heraldry Bookplate. I have created many heraldry pieces over the years for many publishers. This artwork was commissioned and designed as a title page piece in a book. The original art was hand-colored and then overprinted by hand with black ink similar to how Andy Warhol worked. This production comes of going to art school and specializing in print medium.
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Mythic Europe Map. I was commissioned to create this map back in 1992. It was rendered as a single art piece, including the type, on 200lb, hot press watercolour paper.
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Fruit Seller. I was commissioned to create 8 colour woodcut pieces for a book. The original artwork now hangs on my studio wall. They were hand-coloured and then were overprinted by hand with black ink. These pieces turned out well and resulted in a number of followup commissions from the original publisher as well as from other publishers.
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The Scribe. This color woodcut image was commission for a medieval game book. Along with the 7 other commission pieces, this piece stands out from the others. Contrary to what most people assume, my color woodcut pieces are not colored pieces. The color is applied by hand first and then the black ink is hand printed over the top of the color.
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Medieval Stained Glass No.1. I was commissioned to create 6 colour illustrations for a book but the publisher intended to publish the final art in grayscale to match the dark mood of the book rather than in colour. I decided to render my art in grayscale, leaning toward sepia, so I could have better control of how the final tonal value art printed. These pieces were all full page illustrations.
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Medieval Stained Glass No.2. I was commissioned to create 6 colour illustrations for a book's chapter headers. I chose to render the final artwork in grayscale, in various shades of sepia, so I could have better control of how the final tonal value art printed. These pieces were all full page illustrations.
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Llewellyn's 2005 Cover Art. I was asked to render the cover art for Llewellyn's almanac in 2005. I had created a large number of black line artwork for Llewellyn Publishing up to that point in time but it was a great honour to be asked to create the cover art for their annual publication. The book cover was roughly 5.5x8.5-inches; my artwork was rendered at 150% of final size.
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The Balrog. This piece proved extremely popular with art directors, leading to more commissions from other art directors/publishers. The final piece has a small misprint near the top right portion of the artwork. The original art director really liked this minor flaw as it was an authentic mishap resulting from the printing process. Original art is 10 inches tall.
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Hare. I was asked to create an entire tarot card deck for Llewellyn Publishing with tarot card count of 45 cards. Each card depicted an animal, either real or mythical. I was given 3-months to complete the artwork, and despite having to create only 45 cards, it proved a time challenging assignment.
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Golden Dragon. This commission, along with several other woodcut illustrations, was used as pure decorative art in a book, I created a number of bestiary illustrations over the years but rendering them in woodcut style, I feel, gives the best results.
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Christmas Card. I was commissioned to create a Christmas card for a publisher in medieval color woodcut style. I occasionally receive commissions for card art, usually for promotional purposes, and usually for Christmas time distribution.
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Frog. I was commissioned to illustrate a tarot card deck for Llewellyn Publishing. Each card depicted an animal, either real or mythical. This is the frog art from the tarot deck I illustrated.
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Conspiring Monks. This was one of 10 colour woodcut illustrations that I created for a clients book. The time to complete this artwork, from rough to finished colour illustration was around 6 hours, which was quite fast. Not all such pieces work out so smoothly.
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