The third installment in the Eli Arnold series. The book is supposed to take place in ancient Rome. Because the book wasn’t quite finished yet, the author and I continued to bounce ideas off each other until we settled on this idea for the cover. It’s the most extensive painting I’ve ever done for a cover and took me the
A Sweet, Little Dream by Morgan Straughan Comnick
The author came up with the idea/concept and it was up to me to deliver. I sent her various stock images to look at for the cover and once she sent me the image she wanted, I began making changes. The original photo was taken place during the day, so I changed the lighting to that of a sunset and
The Princess in the Pyramid by Kathryn O’Neil and Gabrielle Johns
This cover was created for a short story/novella written by a mother-daughter team for MG readers. The story is set in ancient Egypt, so I tried to invoke the time period by researching the appropriate clothing and pyramids. This piece is completely digitally painted. 2014.
The Lost (Sage Seed Chronicles #5) by Holly Barbo
The fifth cover in the Sage Seed Chronicles. Because the book touched upon points from all the previous books and because I wanted to give the last book a look that reflected one of the earlier books, I ended up stealing the sky from the second book (Divergent Paths) and recreating a snowy scene that was depicted in the book
Tales from Frewyn: Volume II by Michelle Franklin
The author, having liked my work on Khantara, wanted me to create something similar for a variant cover for her short story collection. Whereas the last one was for a novel and I used green, I decided to use a different color scheme (this time, purple) to represent the short stories and to show that although the stories are related,