http://www.mykeamend.com/new Steampunk Speculative Fiction, Horror, Surreal, Fine Art, Illustration, Paintings, Engravings, and Prints Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:32:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've finally completed the new gallery page. Not only will you find a much more comprehensive collection of images, but I also list next to each image what size prints (or other merchandise) that image is currently available as. This move not only revealed to me that a lot of artworks ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/03/11/big-change-many-more-prints-and-easier-to-find/ [caption id="attachment_870" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="First Flight"][/caption] An alternate version of the promotional piece done for Dexter Palmer's brilliant and fantastic novel: "The Dream of Perpetual Motion", published by Macmillan/St. Martin's Press. ( http://us.macmillan.com/thedreamofperpetualmotion ) This is the scene as I first imagined it, not the actual piece for Macmillan's site. In the novel, the ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/03/07/first-flight/ [caption id="attachment_867" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Mankind Has no Time Desktop 1280 x 960"][/caption] This image was the cover for the upcoming September/October issue of Gatehouse Gazette, an excellent dieselpunk, pulp, horror, sci fi, steampunk mag if you aren't already reading it. It was originally done for the magazine in pen and ink, ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/02/15/mankind-has-no-time-desktop-wallpaper/ [caption id="attachment_862" align="aligncenter" width="235" caption="Gatehouse Gazette 10 Cover Remixed "][/caption] The drawing for the Gatehouse Gazette was ink on Bristol. I decided it needed some color, so I broke out the acrylics and got to work on it. This is the finished result... very vintage pulp in its look and feel. What ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/02/11/some-new-artworks/ SuperPunch has collected a fantastic collection of funny, shocking, or otherwise awesome valentines on his site, Superpunch.blogspot.com. There are many steampunky/speculative fiction ones, several lovecraftian ones, ones involving dirigibles and zeppelins and things more related to this blog - The one below however insisted on being posted here (and I leave ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/02/09/omg-valentines/ A finely detailed pirate airship in a fog of wispy swirls and whorls passes by a ages-forgotten temple in the cliff-top mists. The original is 12x9 inches, highly detailed, micro-fine line engraving; Though it translates well to screen resolution, looking at the prints or the original are an entirely new ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/02/09/new-desktop-wallpaper-new-print-the-temple/ Cropped from the full-size piece to feature the airship only to make for a more up close, boldly detailed, and vivid view of the work (available as 18x12 metallic prints, and as 36x24 giclees on canvas in my store) This desktop is 1800 x 1200, but can be resized or ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/01/28/new-desert-shadows-wallpaper/ Just an update to say I am still working on the painting for Cherie Priest's upcoming book "The Clementine", but will be done shortly. [caption id="attachment_846" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="A tiny piece of the current painting for Cherie Priest"][/caption] Currently I am running a sale on my airship pirate tees, as I do ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/01/27/update/ A month back, I did a cover image for the Gatehouse Gazette, my second cover for them. The Gatehouse Gazette being a black and white publication, with a standard of using line-art for the covers, I decided to do the piece in pen and ink. Though not exactly an expressive and ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/01/16/shades-of-things-to-come/ Today, I sent off three giclees to Gallery Nucleus for the "Lift Off!" art show, adding subtle miniature new artworks within each piece including (but not limited to) added airships, additional polar bears, bottles of rum, additional cephalopods, brightened constellations and other details in order to make each giclee its ... http://www.mykeamend.com/new/2010/01/06/added-details-for-the-take-flight-show-in-alhambra-ca/