1. Welcome To Extinction: this digitaly created graphic art commemorates the year 2012 and is the front book cover graphic for Corpus Omphalos, Poetry and Art, Collection 2012. This art work was expanded to a larger concept for a music CD cover released by Occision, a death metal band, in 2012, titled "Welcome To Extinction" and the name stuck.

   

2. Ironwood Wash: digital art study for oil painting on canvas titled "Ironwood Superstition", the purple blossoming trees are ironwoods of the Senoran desert with a view of Superstition mountain in the background. These trees can appear as puffy billows of smoke across a desert landscape and are also called "smoke trees". Local legend says this is smoke from the fires of ancient spirits dwelling in these deserts.
  

3. Chaco Blue: digital art study for oil painting on canvas titled "The Bird Hunters". This is from a series of graphic studies on ancestors of the Hopi and other puebloans; the Chaco Canyon people developed an extensive civilization between c. AD 850 and 1250, now protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Four Corners region of the USA.

 

4. Dog Alley: this digital art graphic was originally made for the background of an animated interactive website doorway for an online video arcade I designed and ran called Dog Alley. There were various rollover events and doors opened to any number of locations from which the escape was a riddle, axcess to the arcade periodically changed and involved avoiding the dogs who guarded this alley.

 

5. White Knuckle Ride: This is one of a series of graphic characters used for advertising a band's gig at Sturgis Ralley and a theme for a developing show called Ghost Bike Builders.

   

6. Richard III at Bosworth Field: the skeletal remains of King Richard III were unearthed 2012. The King was slain at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, an event marking the end of the Middle Ages in Britain. This graphic image of Richard III is one of a series of illustrations regarding the facial reconstruction and how his contemporaries described him. He rode a white courser into this battle; the horse becoming bogged down in the mire opportuned opponents to slay the King. The weapon in this graphic is a halberd, or poleaxe.  In this illustration, I exagerated damage to the King's helmet to make a point.

 

7. World Tree: a fanciful version of a 'world tree' that shows up in so many cultural folk stories; the trunk is male and female and the tree bears fruit that look like little worlds.

   

8. Claw: It was during my first year of archaeological field work when, one evening, a local medicine man visited me quite unexpectedly. He was well known in the area, an elder augur who had a special fondness for raven feathers, among many other birdly and curious things. He came to give me a gift and a blessing, he said, handing a small pouch to me, and then performed a ritual right then and there. I've written short stories of this and other adventures, autobiographical and fiction, I plan to publish in 2015. Claw is a portrail of an augur shaman, the necklace claw illustrates a Velociraptor sickle-shaped 'hand' claw, here, a talisman in reference to a region of origins and a seven year old fellow who already knows more about palentology than most people likely ever will .... 

 

9. Rising Tides: digital poster art, a combination of elements from seven graphic works in the Corpus Omphalos 2012 collection (Shambala Bay, Shade 14, General Kwan and the Serpent, Drones Don't Die, Kali, and Crest Forest). Rising Tides is the back cover art for the Corpus Omphalos book.

 

10. Beverly Bridge: the Beverly Bridge train trestle goes over the Columbian River in central Washington State. It has been abandoned for decades. I climbed up on the bridge one snowy winter day to photo capture the amazing structure and was fortunate to be there when a council of crows was gathering at the other end of the bridge. This image shows a detail, or partial, view of the photo-art work that was used for the cover art for the book Where Image Abides.

 

 

Later, I'll be changing these 10 of 36 images from the book collection and show a different set.