In Conversation with Lizzie Karen on Atlantis
We’ve all heard of Atlantis. Was it real or purely mythological?
For as long as she can remember Lizzie Karen has dreamt of Atlantis. But were they more than dreams?
Join me for Part 1 of In Conversation with Lizzie Karen, check out her videos, and decide for yourself 🌍✨
Four new Netrunner card illustrations for the Midnight Sun pack from NISEI.
Despite the game’s global popularity, FFG was forced to shutter Netrunner due to licensing in 2018. Recently a group of dedicated players decided to carry the torch and create new cards for the community. Their team is called NISEI and I’m thrilled with their initiative.
Chatushka
Fists raised in solidarity against corporations, loosely based on a Ukrainian rhyming song.
Backstitching
The concept was to depict a runner using gathered intel to loop through cyberspace like a thread and navigate past ICE (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics).
Ubiquitous Vig
The concept presents disembodied hands of the elite: corpocrats, mobsters, and private subsidiaries all greedily swiping their cut from a trove of profits.
The Twinning
This was one of the most challenging cards I’ve ever worked on. There have been images that have been more time consuming to pull off visually, but the brief for this piece came in two pages, rather than the standard 2-4 sentences. The writer’s intentions was to present a character, a gender-fluid environmental activist with cybernetic enhancements named Esa who lives in Siberia and spends xir time battling corporate exploitation. “Twinning” is a term used to describe growth patterns in crystals that result when different types of crystals pair together symmetrically. The twinning represents the ethical and spiritual drive of Esa to unite the workers of the megacorporations doing the harm, as well as being a game mechanic that allows players to link this and another card together. Phew. The end result may look obvious, but it took some problem solving. The writer expressed his surprise that I pulled it off and was thrilled with the result. I love when I can make that happen 😅❤️✨
Book cover art and design I created a few years ago, titled Lotus. A magical story written by Eylem Tok. From Sintiyapera Publishing, Turkey.
“Lyra, Goddess of Mother Earth, stood alone. The only place on Earth where there was a single drop of water was the lake where her daughter lay sleeping. She turned her gaze toward the waters of the lake, in the middle of which floated a pure, pink lotus flower. That pink lotus flower was her daughter, Rigel.”
“The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.”
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg
What’s in a name?
Minnow
Oil, 12×15″
Affectionate portrait of friend’s cat 😸
Well I never expected that my love for painting would lead to them appearing on stickers and shirts that would then find themselves at our local urban oasis known as brookline booksmith. Yet here they are 😊
Actually, if you know where to look, hidden among the shelves is a gallery of my pictures…
Please pass this along to anyone in the area who you think would appreciate it. Drop by soon and you’ll leave with a free limited edition bookmark!
This post is to honor the recent passing of artist & illustrator Marshall Arisman, whom I had the privilege to study with at The School of Visual Arts, in the masters of illustration program he founded. A true visionary, Marshall was a man of deep wisdom, painting images that look you in the eye from beyond the veil.
“You gotta learn to stand in the space between angels and demons.”
He was patient, tough but fair, and always encouraging of personal growth. Marshall’s influence on other artists is vast and will continue for a long time. As his work lives on, his company will be missed 
New painting 🌟
At the Threshold to Elsewhere
Oil & digital
Portal Series
New painting 🌟
Access Granted at the Door to Distant Places
Oil & digital
Portal Series
New painting 🌟
Arrival at the Resonant Gateway
Oil & digital
Portal Series
