an old painting acrylic on illustration board,11" by 14" hanging on a wall at old friends Doug Herring's place.

part 7 but note if you do not have the imagination to create your own paintings, ideas, worlds, then maybe another or a former line of work should be taken into consideration.

,part 6 or maybe they did know and just didn't care, or thought no one would notice. this individual has been called on this by others, hopefully they will disappear and this will be a thing of the past..

part 5 The science fiction community is a tight knit family, the pros and bigger name fans all know each other and many of us are lucky to call each other friends. This individual is a relative new comer to the PNW art scene and how our world works. word gets out quickly when discovered,

part 4 it is a sickening feeling, luckily the artist and their work is not very good, but to see all these pieces based off an artists work, its a very uncomfortable feeling.

part 3But...discovering art by an individual that not only is trying to copy technique but subject matter that an artist is known for, encompassing I don't know how many paintings, dozens upon dozens, some bordering on plagiarism,

part 2 All well and good. Ideas bounce off one another at times, takes you off into another tangent based off the inspiration of the original image. Part of being an artist.

part1 They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...maybe, in my opinion it can be taken to far. As young artists we learn new technique and tricks to incorporate into our tool box. you see an artists work and it might inspire a response, an idea off from the image, All well and good.

Here's the cover for The Re-Imagined Princess by the amazing Jeff Sturgeon, aka @skyship.bsky.social. Available March 20 on World Storytelling Day.

Sending a HUGE thank you to all the artists who reached out. For this project, I've decided Jeff Sturgeon @skyship.bsky.social is the best fit. I've been wanting to work with Jeff for over a decade. So jazzed to have him doing the cover for The Re-Imagined Princess.

I just finished a call with Jeff Sturgeon, aka @skyship.bsky.social to talk about the cover for The Re-Imagined Princess. I'm so jazzed about what we came up with! Looking forward to sharing this book with people.

The Crimson Citadel for Steven K Smiths project Wasteland Alice acrylic on canvas 18" by 24" #sksproductions #sciencefiction#Sciencefictionart

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Work in progress for Steven K Smith's Wasteland Alice acrylic on canvas 18" by 24"

Alien Ruins Across The Void

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

new concept art for Jeff Sturgeon's Last Cities of Earth #sciencefiction#sciencefictionart#fantasy#fantasyart#conceptart

My upcoming convention schedule for 2025, Radcon February 14-16th www.radcon.org SageFenCon April 4th6th sagefencon.org Norwescon 47 April 17th-20th www.norwescon.org Miscon Jun2 20th-23rd www.miscon.org Seattle Worldcon August 13th-17th seattlein2025.org Loscon 51 November 28th-30th loscon.org

Entered my art show application for Seattle WorldCom 2025 !!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, have a great day !

work in progress for Steven K Smiths project Wasteland Alice acrylic on canvas 18" by 24"

work in progress for the graphic novel project Wasteland Alice by Steven k Smith

just watched Max's Kansas City the Birthplace of Punk, fucking fantastic documentary for all you music geeks!!!!!

historic storm hitting tonight with gusts to 65, blizzard warning for the mountains.

Its really great, to see all the COOL people come over to this side !!!

The Kickstarter and published covers for my anthology. #art#sciencefiction#anthogies

new cover for Manny Frishberg's new novel The City of Emeralds #art#sciencefiction#sciencefictionart#fantasy#bookcovers

Here at the new home for us who could not tolerate or support the BS at the other site. looking forward to reconnecting and building my followers and supporting friends and those who I think are cool!

I'm free!