Book Cover Illustrations

I recently wrote a small article for Dr. Shelley Carson’s blog page. For those unfamiliar with Dr. Carson, she teaches an award-winning (and very popular) course “Creativity: Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Students” at Harvard. Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure to exchange emails with her, discussing how my various experiences have influenced my own […]

Dr. Shelley Carson has been researching creativity for some years now, and we often exchange emails. She recently asked me to write a small comment on how some of my artwork had influenced me on a personal level — and this is the result. The artwork is the illustration I created for Dale Allan’s novel […]

This is the preliminary cover illustration I did with red lettering for the title (which, tentatively, is the final version of the cover — all things subject to change in publishing) for Dale Allan’s upcoming mystery novel Lead Me Not Into Temptation. For a closer look at what sort of symbolism/thought went into the layout […]

This is the preliminary cover illustration I’ve created for Dale Allan’s upcoming mystery novel Lead Me Not Into Temptation. We tried to capture the conflict in one of the key scenes in the book, in which a priest is faced with the moral dilemma of whether to take matters into his own hands, and perhaps […]

Here’s the book illustration I finished this week for the cover of Dale Allan’s crime novel It Could Happen to You. The author wanted a realistic picture of a lonely mountain road where a bit of violence takes place at the beginning of the story. My original layout had the limo grill facing the viewer […]