Featured in The World of Ice and Fire published by Bantam in 2014. Media: Goauche on illustration board.
Category: George R. R. Martin
There is to be a book published in 2008 from Random House which is a concordance of the entire lore author George R.R. Martin has published so far about his fantasy realm Westeros. I have been commissioned to illustrate a series of castles from the books, and here you will find some examples.
There are 13 works involved, each a distinct location and castle design according to the author’s descriptions. I have been working closely with Mr. Martin and we are very excited about the results.
Another project is in the works with GRRM, an illustrated edition of one of the remaining volumes in the series A Song of Ice and Fire. I will keep you informed of progress on that project when it arrives, but it is still many months in the future at this point in late 2007.
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Westeros Landscape; A View Southeast to the Bay of Crabs
Featured in The World of Ice and Fire published by Bantam in 2014. Media: Goauche on illustration board.
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Storm’s End
Featured in The World of Ice and Fire published by Bantam in 2014. Media: Goauche on illustration board.
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The Hightower at Oldtown
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 11¼″ × 15″ G.R.R.M. was careful to describe this ancient burg in the south, seven-stepped and (my suggestion) seven sided, rising above an even more ancient original fortress at the lowest level.
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Pyke
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 11¼″ × 15″ It is described as a series of towers and keeps set upon sea stacks, but instead of trying to show all of that, I narrowed it to the Seastone Chair connected by its precarious rope bridge above typically stormy seas. Pyke is the throne of a …
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Dragonstone
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 11¼″ × 15″ It was created by ‘magic’ by the original Valerian conquerors, but this concept was the least satisfying challenge, being a very difficult castle to depict realistically. The author describes a castle of hardened volcanic stone formed into dragon-towers as well as a massive central drum tower.
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Harrenhal
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 11¼″ × 15″ It is described as dark, massive, haunted and cursed, and showing evidence of the dragon attacks long ago. Like Winterfell (though larger), it is many acres in area, and its scale is indicated by the seemingly little ship approaching the lake gate in the foreground.
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Winterfell
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 11¼″ × 15″ The tale begins with the Starks of Winterfell, described as a very ancient, sprawling and massive castle with double walls, so I decided to focus in on the main gatehouse and winter village.
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Eastwatch by the Sea
Media: Gouache on illustration board My 15th painting of an imagined castle from Westeros.4
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The Twins
Media: Gouache on illustration board Chapter piece for The Complete Guide to the Ice and Fire Universe.
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