ILLUSTRATION

In a frantic flight through the woods, a fierce ostrich-like bird bends its sinuous neck as it corners around a massive tree. With a powerful talon, it grips rock and seeks footing with its other leg raised. Mounted on its back gripping reins is a redheaded man in a vibrant blue coat. A serpent coils around his shoulder and down his extended arm. The serpent spreads kaleidoscopic wings and hisses in displeasure. A badger-like creature springs out of their path.
  • Acrylic - 30" x 20"
    1982

PURSUIT

Occasionally it is fun to do an action-filled scene. This exciting book by Alan Dean Foster afforded the perfect opportunity. Compositionally, the idea here was to present a scene without any horizontals or verticals. Using a jumble of angles conveys a sense of chaotic energy. As usual, I worked from background to foreground, transparent to opaque, from large masses to small details...all to increase the sense of depth in the scene and to sharpen the focus on the center of action.
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE
  • For Love of Mother Not
    Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey)

  • He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer’s block. One hundred credits and he was hers.

    For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew — even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.

    Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip’s venom . . . and Flinx’s unusual Talents.

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