HEARTSWOOD (2019) by Michael Whelan The fourth installment in his 2019 LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project. I originally sketched this in Raw Umber while trying to come up with a Tad Williams cover design. It was never used but I liked the...
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HEARTSWOOD (2019) by Michael Whelan

The fourth installment in his 2019 LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.

I originally sketched this in Raw Umber while trying to come up with a Tad Williams cover design. It was never used but I liked the arrangement.

Earlier this month I completed the image using some reds. A little late for Valentine’s Day?

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EMPIRE OF GRASS COVER REVEAL - 9/25/18

Tad Williams will be revealing the cover for his upcoming novel EMPIRE OF GRASS (Book 2 of the Last King of Osten Ard) tomorrow on Reddit at 1pm PST. Please join him and check out the fantastic art by Michael Whelan.

Editor’s Note: I don’t have a direct link to the Reddit AMA yet but will post it when I do.

Just wanted to update with the address for the AMA. You can find Tad here on Reddit at 1pm Pacific time today. We should also have the illustration to showcase after the cover reveal. So stay tuned for that!

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EMPIRE OF GRASS COVER REVEAL - 9/25/18

Tad Williams will be revealing the cover for his upcoming novel EMPIRE OF GRASS (Book 2 of the Last King of Osten Ard) tomorrow on Reddit at 1pm PST. Please join him and check out the fantastic art by Michael Whelan.

Editor’s Note: I don’t have a direct link to the Reddit AMA yet but will post it when I do.

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From our in the studio feature from last summer

GREEN ANGEL TOWER (1993) by Michael Whelan, cover art for the book by Tad Williams

Michael knows I’m a huge fan of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. I’ve asked him a number of times for the paintings of the original swords that decorate the spines only to be disappointed time and again.

After my first dive through the studio recently, Michael subtlely inquired whether I’d found anything from the series in storage. It wasn’t until my second day that I found what he was hinting at.

I had no idea the swords were part of the jacket art. I always figured they were separate paintings. It was quite a surprise when I stumbled across these designs.

As you can see from the scan of the dustjacket, DAW offered a couple different versions of the cover. Mine is flopped with the Sithi on the front and Simon and Miriamele on the back.

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From our in the studio feature from last summer.

IN DAI CHIKIZA (1988) by Michael Whelan, cover art for The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams.

The jacket art for the first volume of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy features Jingizu (the Sithi word for “Sorrow”), a blade forged by the Storm King.

I’ve always loved Tad’s description of the sword, and he painted it so ominously in just a few passages:

“…in a sheath at [King Elias’] side was the sword with the strange crossed hilt…there was something queer and unsettling about the blade…[It] had a strange double guard, the cross pieces making; with the hilt, a sort of five pointed star.”

…[the blade] was no mere weapon, but a blasphemy against the earth that had yielded both iron and witchwood. It was a hole in the tapestry of creation, and life leaked away through it.

Don’t you think Michael channeled the text perfectly in capturing Sorrow? I doubt he changed anything from his original design when he painted it again for the recent DAW reissues of the trilogy.

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