If you've been following my blog, you've noticed that I like to discuss the process that I go through when I make these pictures, in a kind of nuts and bolts way. For me, as an artist, that's one thing that I find fascinating about other artist's work. Whenever I pick up an art magazine, I skip right past those long verbose articles written by critics, but when I stumble on the artist's own words, I'm glued, and to the pictures too of course. So it's my hope that whether you're an artist, a writer, a publisher, an avid reader, or just a plain old blog eater, that you'll find what I have to share, both in image and words, interesting.
Cover images were intended to be conceptual, and not to illustrate any particular story within. Most often, due to the nature of the magazine, they were very genre specific, space ships and aliens, which though interesting, I didn't always feel fit a lot of what the inventive authors in the magazine were writing about. There definitely was a dark fantasy element to many of the stories, and I wanted to create something that captured that feel and was very different from what had been done before. With that said, you could say there is a kind of tribal/alien chic going on in this picture, but hopefully in unconventional manner. The model was my 4 year old son, who loved any excuse to have his face painted. And me being trained in the fine arts as a painter, loved the idea of being able to combine painting, photography and collage.
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