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All the Stars in the Sky – Cover
A picture book I illustrated for Simon and Schuster went online for pre-order recently! "All the Stars in the Sky" by Art Coulson is a really sweet story about a young Cherokee boy who learns about community from his grandmother. I used a combination of beadwork and watercolor for all the illustrations. Here's the cover: And the thumbnail (done in graphite) and color sketch (digital): And a timelapse detail from one of the internal pages…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Fischer Paints: Breathing in the Stardust
January 14, 2025 - Ahhh Ziggy... You know of all of Bowie's personas, he is perhaps the most iconic. The music, the hair, the outfits, that lightning bolt. Heh, my father saw this piece in process. Dad is 80 years old and I don't think I've ever heard the man mention Bowie, or Ziggy, or hum one of the tunes the Spiders from Mars created. But when he saw this he said... "David." He didn't say "David?" But "David." with a period. I took that as a thumbs up. Though truth be told, I was chasing more of an essence than a likeness. (We took some liberties with that hair!) Once upon a time I was writing a book called "Being Bowie" about a kid in junior high who took inspiration from Bowie. In the story the kid had…
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY! (For the Criterion Collection)
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Going Big: Enlarging “The Wind in the Waves”
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Preliminaries
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
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Fischer paints: Tameshi: Reality Architect for MTG Kamigawa Neon Dynasty
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
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Artist Spotlight: Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Character Design, Pt 3 – Creating Variations – Layer Organization and Clipping
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