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I’ve just listed a ton of new dark art prints for sale.
I’ve got a little something for everyone.
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‘Barad Dur’ – J Edward Neill – 2020
‘Orthanc’ – J Edward Neill – 2020
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‘Savagery of the Gods’ – J Edward Neill – 2020
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‘Searching the Shadowlands’ – 2019 – J Edward Neill
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In a far and ancient land, Emperor Chakran dreams of conquest. His desire to resurrect the evil, world-ending Ur casts a dark shadow across an unsuspecting world.
But as his army butchers its way across the realm, leaving only a vast, storm-riddled graveyard in its wake, a small band of warriors rises up to oppose him…
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At the world’s edge, all dreams come to nothing…
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Read J Edward Neill’s terrifying new fantasy novel today…
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It’s the end of an era.
The final book in the Tyrants of the Dead trilogy is here.
At the world’s edge, Andelusia awakens to the terrible realization that all her dreams have come to nothing. No matter that her father, the warlock, has fallen into exile. No matter that the enemies of mankind have retreated into darkness. When the shadows in her heart cause the seasons to change and deadly storms to sweep across Thillria, she knows what will come:
The Black Moon will descend.
The Ur will rebuild their haunted civilization atop humanity’s graveyard.
Unless she alone wages war against the Nether Kingdom, the world will burn.
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Nether Kingdom can be read as a stand-alone novel, but in case you want the full, dark trilogy…
Maybe more than all my previous Painting with Darkness articles, this one has special meaning.
It’s the only piece I’ve done in the last three years that I didn’t work on in my epic painting studio.
And it’s the first I finished in my little shoebox apartment.
No matter…
I hope you’ve got your reading glasses on. This is the soft pencil work I put on the canvas before a single drop of paint ever touched it. I’m not gonna lie; the geometry was challenging. See that circle in the center? It’s dead-on in the middle down to the millimeter. What’s special about it? To trace the circle I used the 60-year old mixer bowl my grandmother many times used to make my pancakes.
Begin the darkness: First I swirled watercolor blacks and sepia tones in the background. Then I used a hard straight-edge to paint in the black ‘towers’ jutting out of the sphere. And then…I added even more sepia and filled in the center sphere to give it depth.
More towers were needed. I realized I hadn’t added enough. Also, I darkened the center sphere. Also also also…I used pale watercolor blacks to slice in distant towers behind the hard, sharp foreground towers.
What can I say? I wanted even MORE towers. In this shot, although it’s hard to see, I used whites to give the towers a reflective quality. Like they’re made out of polished obsidian or some hard, dark otherworldly metal.
Now began the hard part. And by hard I mean TEDIOUS. Using a tiny brush and some titanium white paint, I started adding windows and doors to the towers. I imagined a ghost behind each window…and NOT a friendly one. At the time this picture was taken, I’d spent two hours just dotting in windows and adding texture to the towers.
Ghostscape – the final image. I like how the ring of lower tower lights frames the center of the sphere. It’s kind of a never ending city swirling around a tiny, terrifying planet. So…anyone up for a vacation?
Now…the only question is:
Which way to hang it?
In other words, which towers should point up, and which should point down?
Hmmmmm…
Love,
Author of novels A Door Never Dreamed Of and The Hecatomb
