Owen William Weber Illustration

Mantra 2, 18" x12", Oil on Masonite, 2013. I finished this painting a while back, but never got around to photographing it until recently.  this is another piece in my ongoing "Mantra series".  The idea behind the series is to do various free floating still-lives, and make them as dream-like as possible.  They're given black backgrounds and I do many dark glazes over the detailed painting to push it into the black as much as necessary.  This is an image of a flint stone and the fire it creates.  It is meant to be a mantra of our origins as homo sapiens and the evolution that occurred after the discovery of the magic this rock can create.  I don't have this series completely mapped out yet, it's still evolving itself.  I hope to do five of them, but who knows.  I'd like to keep them as images of natural objects, but I'm not sure if that matters.  I'll paint them as they come to me.

I just saw that my card, Purged by Flame, has been released on the Fantasy Flight Games website, so I figure it's fine to do a post.  I did this at the same time as the last image I posted, Boon of Tzeentch.  It was a super fun to do, I love to do flames, elves, and purging, so it was right up my alley.  It started with the drawing: ©Fantasy Flight Games The main focus of the piece was the gauntlet in the flame, so I went with a more severe perspective to put that up front.  I got the ok from the AD and so I moved on to the final painting. ©Fantasy Flight Games After sending the image to get accepted by the higher-up's, they thought the armor needed to change, helmet needed to be gone, and spear needed to get changed to a shield.  So after painting in those changes, this is what came out:   ©Fantasy Flight Games I thought I was going to change the final image back to the original, because I loved the helmet so much, and I put so mu...