by Michael Everett | Jan 19, 2017
by Michael Everett | Aug 4, 2016
This painting arose from musing on an interview that Stanley Kubrick gave in 1968. When I was young I originally read his comments to glean clues to understanding Kubrick’s landmark film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – but I have repeatedly gone back to that interview and... 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2012
I was honored to paint the cover image for the final book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, but it was a daunting prospect given the massive backstory of 14 books written over a span of 20+ years. Each volume, illustrated by the late... 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2010
The vision that became ELLIE’S DREAM came to me exactly as you see it here. I was thinking about the Moon Race and the clear cloudless skies of my childhood days in California. The curving structure is shaped to resemble a wind-twisted rocket contrail, something... 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2009
The other side of the ocean from CAUSEWAY. 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2008
A self-portrait. 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2008
Michael has semi-retired from illustration, but last year NESFA Press, the publishing side of the New England Science Fiction Association, asked him to do 6 covers for the collected stories of famed author Roger Zelazny. They told him that before he died, Zelazny... 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2007
I’ve done a number of paintings which have taken their symbolic cues from letter forms. “Eye” is one example, eye = “I”. As with many of my works, this one employs light as a symbol of knowledge and affirmation. There are two Stanley... 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2005
Up until this point in my End of Nature series, I had portrayed the people who represent humanity in general as somewhat oblivious to the support that nature was providing for them. When I began this painting I thought of the figure as a person mislead by folly,... 
by Michael Whelan | Jan 1, 2004
Interior illustration for THE DARK TOWER VII by Stephen King. Patrick the magical artist draws the door into existence. Note the 2 brushes on the doorknob. 