WEYRWORLD (1990) by Michael Whelan. Cover and preliminary concept for All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27” x 36”
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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.
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WEYRWORLD by Michael Whelan, cover for All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.
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Two of the Michael Whelan designs that the Franklin Mint used to produce dragon sculptures. We’re offering both of these original pencil studies framed as part of our second 2013 holiday newsletter coming later this week.
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DRAGONSDAWN by Michael Whelan, cover for the book by Anne McCaffrey
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Slight kerfuffle on the Pern subreddit regarding the detail of the rider and dragon in DRAGON ABOARD. Here’s a detail I posted there as well.
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A preliminary drawing by Michael Whelan for THE WHITE DRAGON by Anne McCaffrey. This is a gem that Michael recently found in his studio files.
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DRAGON ABOARD
The cover art for DRAGONWRITER, A TRIBUTE TO ANNE MCCAFFREY AND PERN was originally conceived in 1991 for her novel ALL THE WEYRS OF PERN.
Anne often reminded readers that her Pern series were science fiction novels and this was a scene that she wished could be on the cover. Michael did a tight preliminary called “In the Cargo Hold.” He was ready to do the full-size painting, but he had a dream in which he envisioned the dragons having a conference high up in the clouds. He told Anne about it and she liked it so much that she wrote the scene into her story and that’s what became the cover. http://dlvr.it/3mGQjW
DRAGONFLIGHT by Michael Whelan, cover for the book by Anne McCaffrey.
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IN THE CARGO HOLD by Michael Whelan, a preliminary concept for All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.
This weekend at Spectrum Fantastic Art Live, Michael displayed DRAGON ABOARD, a finished painting based on this concept which will serve as the cover for Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern edited by Todd McCaffrey.
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