Behind the Cover: Dave Seeley
"I was born in Boston, and before I was conscious to my surrounding, I was suburbanized for eighteen comfortable years in Andover, Massachusetts. My love and propensity for math, science and the making of art sent me off to colloge at Rice University in Houston where I earned a dual degree in architecture and fine art, and in the provess, became an avid comics and fantasy art collector. For several years I practiced architecture while my desire to make art was subverted into art collecting. In 1989 I tracked down Rick Berry and Phil Hale with whom I began late night collaborative painting over beer and Irish whiskey. Seduced by the charm and glamour of image making, I derailed my salaried full time day job as an award-winning architect to have some MORE FUN and feed my creative spirit making images. You can see printed work in Showcase 23 and 24, The Workbook 23, and in SPECTRUM: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art volumes 4,5,6,7 and 9. So what is it that I'm doing in the world of illustration?... good question... I'm still thinking about that one... daily... and slowly, I think it may be coming together.
James Dean - Tor Books
Virga 1.2 - Science Fiction Book Club
Techno Prisoner
Hunters League 4 - Simon and Schuster
Chill Factor - Penguin Roc
I live and work in my studio in Boston with my wife and 7 year old son. We love the urban life and walk everywhere.
I'm far more influenced by modern day sci-fi film noir than by illustration in the industry today. I certainly tend toward the painterly in non-digital illustration. I admire the work of Berry and Hale, Kent Williams, John Muth, Dave McKean, and George Pratt. I love the art of Caravaggio, Egon Schiele, John Singer Sargeant, Robert Graham and Odd Nerdrum.
To create photo/digital images, I often tackle a piece from the ground up with photo-collage in the computer. Recently, when time allows, I've been painting on archival digital prints of photo-collaged images for the final piece. I love oil painting as well, and when I have a break, I'm back to my easel. My paint style tends to be far more "loose" than my photo/digital style. I like to "see the medium" when working traditionally. I occasionally work in traditional media and "go digital", largely oils or pencil scanned into the computer where I add photo-source images and work it to some degree with color, filter and lighting manipulations... MIXED MEDIA. I'm finding recently, that the specifics of media are becoming much less important to me." Dave Seeley
http://www.daveseeley.com/
James Dean - Tor Books
Virga 1.2 - Science Fiction Book Club
Techno Prisoner
Hunters League 4 - Simon and Schuster
Chill Factor - Penguin Roc
I live and work in my studio in Boston with my wife and 7 year old son. We love the urban life and walk everywhere.
I'm far more influenced by modern day sci-fi film noir than by illustration in the industry today. I certainly tend toward the painterly in non-digital illustration. I admire the work of Berry and Hale, Kent Williams, John Muth, Dave McKean, and George Pratt. I love the art of Caravaggio, Egon Schiele, John Singer Sargeant, Robert Graham and Odd Nerdrum.
To create photo/digital images, I often tackle a piece from the ground up with photo-collage in the computer. Recently, when time allows, I've been painting on archival digital prints of photo-collaged images for the final piece. I love oil painting as well, and when I have a break, I'm back to my easel. My paint style tends to be far more "loose" than my photo/digital style. I like to "see the medium" when working traditionally. I occasionally work in traditional media and "go digital", largely oils or pencil scanned into the computer where I add photo-source images and work it to some degree with color, filter and lighting manipulations... MIXED MEDIA. I'm finding recently, that the specifics of media are becoming much less important to me." Dave Seeley
http://www.daveseeley.com/