The first book in in Tad Williams and Deborah Beale’s Dragons of Ordinary Farm series was chosen as a “2009 Notable Book for Children“ by the Smithsonian Magazine. I illustrated the cover art and over thirty interior chapter headers.
Coincidentally, I’m illustrating James Smithson’s skull (whose fortune started the museum) on a book cover for Random House.
The first book of the Candle Man series The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance by Glenn Dakin just released this week!
Check out this adventure story with great characters in a steampunk world. Inside the book you’ll also see the spot art and frontispiece that I designed.
There is a great article at the beginning of this month’s American Art Collector (#48) relating to illustration. Eric Cohler, a leading interior designer and a regular contributer to AAC, interviews Judy Goffman Cutler about her collection of artwork. She and her husband have assembled an inspiring collection of originals from the greats of the golden age of illustration including J.C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, Mead Schaeffer, Howard Pyle and many more. Their collection is so definitive that in 1998 they founded the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, Rhode Island. Visitors to the museum can view their collection on Fridays at 2pm with no reservation.
The Lost Conspiracy was recently published by Harper Collins. This is the second cover I’ve created for Frances Hardinge.
Betsy Bird at the School Libary Journal Blog includes a review of my artwork in her post. “ The artist, for the record, is one Greg Swearingen who has done some of the best 2009 covers I’ve seen.” Read her insightful review of Lost Conspiracy here.
If you haven’t had a chance to, check out the artist demos that Illustration Academy has posted. I enjoyed the George Pratt and Mark English clips.
View the demo list here.