Black Ships

John Jude Palencar - Black Ships
Cover for Black Ships by Jo Graham
Orbit December 2009
Acrylic
17.5" x 22"

I really admired the cover art when it was published in 2009, and was quite happy to see the original at IlluXCon 6. The painting now hangs on the same wall as John Jude's The Greener Shore; the paintings are similar -- a single female figure front & center -- but the use of positive & negative space is different and makes for an interesting contrast between the two works.