SF, Fantasy & Horror Images
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Magazine Cover Illustration
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Shkaira Chiefkin
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Overview
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Years later this painting attracted the eye of Baen Books who asked me to modify the heraldic imagery so that they could use it as the cover of the first book in The Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy by author Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter published in 1988. The orignial painting has been sold by then so I had a large photogaphic print made and I made the required modifications on that in oil paint. The series is about a young farm-girl who leaves home to embark upon a quest to become a paladin warrior. The painting is acrylic on artboard. The original heraldic symbols were a skull and crossed red lighting bolts on a black field; the revised heraldry depicted a fox on a purple field. |
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Image copyright © 1981, 1988 & 2010 by Kevin Davies. All rights reserved.
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