Click on a thumbnail below to see a large view of that illustration. Note that these will be fairly big: 700 pixels wide by about 900+ pixels in length. So you don't have to scroll side-to-side but you will have to scroll down them. I did this so you can really see the detail in these, which I took great pains with. Another caveat - each one of these is about 150K, so give it time to load. Enjoy!




Aim Flame
I call it
Bad Moon Risin' (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Tony knows it's time to go.




Fee Fi Fo Feem
But I call it
Don't Gimme No Lines
and Keep Your Hands
to Yourself! (Black Oak Arkansas)
The Giant gets the best of Queen Riding Hood.




Happy Ever After
And I can't resist callin' it
Ball 'N Chain (Janis Joplin)
The Wedding of Wolf and Virginia.




Bright Day on the Edge of Hell
And I call it
Where to Now, St. Peter?

"I got myself
a blue canoe
and I floated like
a leaf...
Dazzlin' dancin'
half-enchanted
in my Merlin sleep.

Crazy was the feelin'
sudden was the change
in such a silent
place as this
beyond
the rifle range...

So -
Where to, now, St. Peter?
If it's true
I'm in your hands!
I may not be a christian
but I've done all a man can.
I understand I'm on a road
where that all that was
is gone..."

(Elton John)



Uhm...sorry about the song references but for me, images always evoke some 'ol tune from my youth!






In May, 2001, I was given the opportunity to participate in a project to illustrate the fantasy novel "The House of Red", written by Mary Anne Gruen, and published by KingdomsPress. This novel takes the form of a "fanzine" which is being marketed at sci-fi/fantasy conventions and via mail order. This project actually started out as a competition, but only one other artist and I entered it (and I still wonder why that was!), and so by default both she and I became the "official" illustrators! It is not within the scope of my pages here to go into a detailed explanation of the story and content of this novel, so I will briefly say that the story is based on and expands from that which no doubt brought you here in the first place - the 2000 film "The Tenth Kingdom". (Copyright Hallmark/Babelsburg Films and NBC. Robert Halmi producer; Simon Moore screenwriter.) If you are new to 10K lore and are interested in knowing more about the film, CLICK HERE. (This is a website I am developing about the 10th Kingdom story: it is still under construction.) If you are interested in reading "The House of Red" on line, CLICK HERE.

I put considerable effort into these 7 illustrations, and am very proud of them, although when I decided to "take the plunge" as it were and tackle them, I wasn't sure whether they would be very good at all! While it is true that I AM a professional artist, I am NOT an illustrator, in fact I'm not very good at anything "made to order"! I'm a true child of serendipity when it comes to my art! But I realized that here was a chance to do more pictures of my beloved Wolf and have them viewed by a larger audience, and so I was off!

All these pictures are acrylic on illustration board, and all measure 8 1/2" x 11".

I hope you enjoy seeing these as much as I enjoyed doing them! And if they pique your interest in this tale, visit the websites mentioned above, or, CLICK HERE to order a copy of the book for yourself! You can also see all the illustrations in links from the order page, including those by the other artist, Aqua. So please go take a gander.


Obviously, my favorite character from the 10th Kingdom story is Wolf, and I have the hubris to think I've depicted him pretty well! - Anyway - the 3 illustrations below are my favorites of the bunch because they show just him. You can click on each one to be taken to a larger (700x900+ pixels) view of that illustration. For those not familiar with all things 10K; I did not have to invent the way Wolf looks: he was played in the film by the actor Scott Cohen, whose likeness I think I've caught nicely. If you want to see for yourself, go to his fan club site HERE.



Wolf's Night Ride...but my title for this piece is...Radar Love, because I kept thinking of the assertive drumbeats in that 70's song (by Bachmann-Turner Overdrive) as the beating of the horse's hooves; with the song's protagonist racing home to his love...
"...no more speed I'm almost there...
...gotta keep cool now, gotta take care..."



War Moon...but I call it...Blood Simple, because of his mesmerized, altered state of consciousness.
While I was working on this one a poem spontaneously came to me, which works as an alternate universe for the scene the painting depicts. CLICK HERE to read it.



Wolf and Raphaela...but I call it...Crazy on You, because I am irresistably reminded of another set of lyrics from a song I love: again from the early 70's, Heart's Crazy on You, in particular these words:

"I was a willow last night in my dreams
I bent down over a clear running stream
and sang you the song I heard from above
and you kept me alive with your sweet flowin' love..."

And of course there is the bridge of the song, which in my mind at least has incredible implications upon the character of Wolf:

"Wild man's world, 'cryin in pain
whatcha' gonna do when everybody's insane?
So afraid of one who's so afraid of you
whatcha'gonna do....."





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