Best in Show for December Maple!

I have been a member of the Dalton Arts Guild since I was in hight school. They have always been extremely supportive of my artwork. I got my first award for art from them, which was a 1st Place Student Award for a clay sculpture called "Cautious Tapir", that was 10 years ago. Last Saturday I was awarded Best in Show for my "December Maple" painting. This is my most satisfying award to date because of my feelings toward this piece. It has become one of my favorite piece's that I have done so far. Most especially because I feel I finally captured my lovely fiance's essence in a painting. It is also very dear to me that they chose the painting of mine that most captures the Berkshire's they way I think of it. It is a quite place and a solemn place. Thank you again to the Dalton Arts Guild. The show is in Miller's Art Supply at 205 West St, Pittsfield, MA 01201. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is also on display and for sale.

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Shireen Baratheon

Soon after I finished the Warhammer: Invasion pieces, I was asked to contribute to the Valar Dohaeris deck in the Game of Thrones LCG. The AD asked me to do a character card of Shireen Baratheon. She is the daughter of Stannis Baratheon and she has Greyscale on her cheek and neck. The AD wanted an image of her looking up at a giant at The Wall, and he wanted it from the perspective of the giant.

I am pretty obsessed with the Song of Fire and Ice series, so this was a true honor for me. This might be a fairly minor character, but just the idea that George R.R. Martin had to give the final OK on the image just makes me so happy.

Wedding Stuff!

So I got married May 13th. It was very fun and everything went really smoothly. I think everyone had a good time. Sarah and I did the wedding ourselves, and did a lot of customization to make the wedding look as cool as possible. It started with this:

This was the Save the Date card we sent back in September. I was highly influenced by a Ukrainian illustrator's, Vladislav Erko, playing cards. The card's edges were rounded so it the edges looked better in print, like they had been worn. I did this all in photoshop with my new tablet, it was a lot of fun to try painting that way again, I hadn't digitally painted since college.
Then we got working on the theme of the wedding, which naturally became based on medieval royalty. Sarah came up with the idea for the invitations. They were based on medieval funerary rubbings: I made them to look as close to us while still being stylized. We were able to find awesome reference of a Danish king, and since I'm Danish, I…

Boon of Tzeentch

Finally I am able to release my first piece for Fantasy Flight Games. It's called Boon of Tzeentch and it was done for the newly released Warhammer: Invasion deck called Fragments of Power. I don't always push myself to do demonic, dark work all the time so it was fun to get to do a piece like this.

So it started with the drawing: I like to keep my drawings more linear, I've found in the painting stage that makes the image more clear to me, especially if there is a lot of detail, like this one, of which I need to keep track.

Once the art director accepted the drawing I moved onto the painting stage. It started out where just the eyes were glowing from the power of Tzeentch (and since the character, a chaos sorcerer, had an eye in his hand I thought that would be a nice touch for his hand to glow). But once the art director saw how that looked she wanted the light streaming from the tattoos overcoming his body.

After a couple "Push this further"'s from the…

Owen William Weber Illustration

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