UNTITLED by Michael Whelan, week 26 in his week 26 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.

Recently, I’ve been working on a painting with a lot of greens in it for an upcoming show at Tree’s Place. As is usual for me, some of the paint got on my drawing table, right in a square that I had cut out of the mat board and filled in already. While waiting for a section of my full-sized painting to dry, I fiddled around with the square of color. After some time, this little scene took shape.

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RENEGADES OF PERN (1988) by Michael Whelan for the book by Anne McCaffrey. Finished painting plus preliminary concepts.

Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 20” X 30”

Michael was in a frenzied state trying to finish up his jobs before the impending birth of his son, when he had a dream about this cover. The trees came to him exactly as you see here and he worked the rest of the cover design around them. Luckily Anne McCaffrey liked them too and she bought the original.

(via theartofmichaelwhelan)

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