Darrell K Sweet

A simply awesome color draft 8" x 5" painting for the cover of the Pier's Anthony novel Orc's Opal which is part of the Xanth series. This painting is signed on the back by Darrell Sweet and dated 1990 (Orc's Opal was released 11/1/1990). The painting is on stiff artist board.
Darrell K. Sweet (August 15, 1934 – December 5, 2011) was a professional illustrator best known for providing cover art for science fiction and fantasy novels, in which capacity he was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1983. He was famous for providing the covers of the fantasy epic saga The Wheel of Time, save for that of the final book, which postdated Sweet's death. He was also the illustrator for the well-known Xanth series by Piers Anthony, the covers of the Pelbar Cycle by Paul O. Williams, the Saga of Recluce series by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and the Runelords series by David Farland as well as the original cover artist for Stephen R. Donaldson's series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.