What I'm working on
I'm 61k words into my current book-near future SF, but I took a six hour break yesterday to paint an idea I've been working with for a while.
The title of this one is "The Victor", showing a victorious warrior queen after battle with her arm in a "V" for victory, and gravity pulling blood down her sword, dripping on her arm in an upside down "V"-and instead of her arm making a V with a chopping motion (about to chop down an enemy), she's sitting and thinking, holding her head in one hand because it hurts, her sword in the other because she can't let go of it.
This is another bookcover painting, and it came out of some thinking about the very famous relief sculpture of Athena-called "Mourning Athena". On the left is a picture of the piece I shot in the Acropolis Museum in Oct. 2001.
Here's a sample of "The Victor"--still in progress--with a detail crop and the full work with her army marching up behind her, a city she's sacked in the background.