These are five versions of a color sketch for the “Kong vs Carnsaur” painting. The first is acrylic on board…

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Now on Amazon from Markosia in both oversized paperback and e-book formats is The first of two new illustrated Kong novels: “King Kong of Skull Island Pt. 1: Exodus” exploring the…

Now on Amazon from Markosia in both oversized paperback and e-book formats! The second of two new illustrated Kong novels: “King Kong of Skull Island Pt. 2 The Wall” reveals the astonishing history of…

The notion that a single life can crackle with the page-turning verve of the best adventure fiction is a sentiment applicable to only a few—but such a one was Merian Coldwell Cooper. Born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1893, Cooper is remembered as a filmmaker whose greatest creation was the 1933 RKO release, King Kong. Less known is that classic fantasy adventure (brought to the screen with his long-time partner, Ernest Schoedsack) was inspired by Cooper’s own true-life encounters with danger, death, and the fantastic…

The young Kong gets caught in a precarious situation! This was the quickest…

As a kid, I had always wondered: Whatever happened to…

These are the first two versions of an interesting 5 stage color sketch process leading up to the finish, which I will show…

Here's a drawing (in graphite) that I pulled out of that little diorama, which…

Discovering the make up of Skull Island itself is one of my favorite parts of the…