TARRANT'S REALM (1990) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32" x 20" C.S. Friedman creates fascinating characters, and I've brought many of them to life. 1/2 - ThreadSky

michaelwhelan.bsky.social • 434 days ago

TARRANT'S REALM (1990)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32" x 20"

C.S. Friedman creates fascinating characters, and I've brought many of them to life. 1/2

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fallentenshi.bsky.social•117 days ago

I never knew of the books, but I was given a holo print of this when younger. One of the few gifts that actually recognised my interests at the time. The reflective light making different angles more heroic or more sinister appealed to me, and made the blue even more powerful.

I might have to read.

imnoplath.bsky.social•434 days ago

Wow sick ! Love the trees !

mirmorchaint.bsky.social•434 days ago

I have absolutely LOVED this cover (and book!) since I first saw it way back when published. That liquid blue fire pouring off his blade is so beautiful ❤️
Thank you for sharing!

jnxouaquaga.bsky.social•434 days ago

This is the painting that made me learn your name. Read this when it came out, started selling my own work regularly about two years later.

relaxedninja.bsky.social•434 days ago

This guy is a legend. I read that trilogy back in the 90s. I remember that badass cover. Speaking of...he also did the cover for the last volume in The Wheel of Time series (A Memory of Light). What a random, but very cool memory.

morfy.bsky.social•434 days ago

Oh wow, what a great rendition of Callendor

cadiacreations.bsky.social•434 days ago

You've done some of my favorite cover art of all time, including the cover of the book I took my name from!

michaelwhelan.bsky.social•434 days ago

ere is Gerald Tarrant at the height of his power on the first book of the Coldfire Trilogy. 2/2

Cover illustration for BLACK SUN RISING by C.S. Friedman (DAW)

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/tarrants-realm/

stateofgrays.bsky.social•434 days ago

*Here

disasterqueer.bsky.social•410 days ago

I have a framed print of your cover of "Crown of Shadows" on my wall. That's my favorite Tarrant of yours!

michaelwhelan.bsky.social•409 days ago

😀🙌

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•434 days ago

When I become a fabulously wealthy and famous author, please illustrate a cover for me! I'll already be fabulously wealthy, so I'll be able to pay you what you're worth.

e-bookpushers.bsky.social•434 days ago

Love this trilogy and your covers convey the feel so well.

smithdanigans.bsky.social•434 days ago

If you’ve never been hired to make a high-concept music album cover, you absolutely should be.

michaelwhelan.bsky.social•434 days ago

I've done a few. 😉

shanepatrickwhite.bsky.social•434 days ago

One of my favorites...and the first I'd seen back in my college days ca.1988.

smithdanigans.bsky.social•434 days ago

Just looked your name up on Encyclopaedia Metallum. It seems Cirith Ungol really like you. ^^

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