...is my selling a piece of original art. I have done so perhaps five times in my professional career, with a few memorable highlights:

- The cover for STARCHILD #3. Simply put, I hated the piece (a big portrait of my character Rhysling Learmont). Went to charity. Price: $800

- The cover for STARCHILD #5. Big pastoral piece of Matthew Higgins in a field. Mary Blair color scheme. Gorgeous. Was lost by my printer, who paid me for it. Price: $5,000

- An unfinished illustration in the Fool's Hollow print series. The main figure (Homer Higgins as the Huntsman) didn't match the characters in the first two prints (which can be seen here: ), so I sold it to a primo collector of my stuff. Price: $3,000.

Outside of those sales, I haven't really ever chosen to sell many originals. Until now.

I was commissioned to do illustrations for the johnjosephadams edited issue of Shimmer Magazine, and was delighted by the variety and quality of the stories he selected. They were a lot of fun to illustrate. And as I was cleaning up some of my art files, I thought about selling a couple of them - then realized it wouldn't be fair not to offer the others. So I decided to offer them all.

The caveat is this: the authors (several of whom read this journal) have first option to buy the art that went with their own story. I thought it appropriate that they should have the chance to own the work inspired by their own writing. So in that light, I have decided to price them thusly: if you (yes you, dear author) send me via Paypal (at coppervale@frontiernet.net) enough money to say, buy a new book (around $20-$25 or so) then I'll consider your piece purchased, and send it to you.

Email me (or do the Paypal thing) by Monday, and your piece is, well, yours. After that, if any authors decide they don't want their art, I'll accept offers from the peanut gallery in the $100 range (per illustration).

Here's a sample of the art:


There rest can be viewed here:

(Marissa, email about yours - special circumstances apply!)