ASTRAL MUSE (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 41 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project This piece of mat board was used as a palette while working on the cover for Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance. Half of the scrap was turquoise...
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ASTRAL MUSE (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 41 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project

This piece of mat board was used as a palette while working on the cover for Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance. Half of the scrap was turquoise while the rest was reds and oranges. Random brushstrokes suggested the figure that I painted in.

I still had paints left over from the Sanderson cover session—everything except earth tones which had spoiled with mold—so I used the remaining pigments to render this little image.

Announcing: UNFETTERED II

Signal boost this please!

For those of you who don’t know the story behind UNFETTERED, Shawn Speakman published it to help pay his medical bills after cancer treatment. He’s doing a follow up to pay forward the good will he received in his time of need.

Some great authors here and a great cause! Please consider pre-ordering a copy.

DRAGONSBANE (1985) by Michael Whelan, cover for the book by Barbara Hambly. Note the two figures in the background. This is the original version of the cover art. Michael remastered the image a few years back for Brandon Sanderson, who was a huge fan...
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DRAGONSBANE (1985) by Michael Whelan, cover for the book by Barbara Hambly.

Note the two figures in the background. This is the original version of the cover art.

Michael remastered the image a few years back for Brandon Sanderson, who was a huge fan of the book, because we had sold out of the original print—an edited version of the cover.

Last year, we reissued the original image as an open edition print, which is available in our shop.

Source: michaelwhelan.com

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