The Sand Daemon Nichusa

The Daemon of the Valley of the Shadow
(The Chronicles of Rion©)

Size: 26×26
Medium: Charcoal, Graphite Powder Charcoal, pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (unframed)
Price: $4,000

Storytime

(The Chronicles of Rion©)

Meet Quilrahne Tuhl, a Master of Arcane Magic and a recent student of Theology and the art of Divine Magic, and he is known to many far and wide as Quilrahne the Seeker. And Osferth, his cohort, his confidant, his brother, if you will. And yes, he is a Capuchin monkey. The two have formed such a bond that they can communicate telepathically. They are never seen apart, together on every misadventure. 
The two also belong to the Brotherhood of Three, established and hand-picked by King Rion. With one goal, to seek out and find holy relics throughout the lands, which were thought to be destroyed at the time of the Silver Clouds to become known as Ash Wednesday, some say a thousand years ago. 
We find our two companions searching for holy relics taking refuge from the oppressive and deadly southern midday heat in the ruins of an old village in what was once called Death Valley in the time before Ash Wednesday, known now as the Valley of the Shadow. Where, much to both of their delight, Osterth finds a diamond in the rubble.

Size: 22×24
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: SOLD

The Blessing

(The Chronicles of Rion©)

Mawida is a Ngen or a forest spirit. She is the overseer of Thornewood Forest.
Mawida finds King Rion’s sword in the Swamp of the Dead, where Lord Guurak of the frozen North cast it aside after the ambush at Crowhaven, where he had King Rion crucified.
Mawida brings the sword to the sacrificial altar in the center of Thornewood and offers it up to the heavens asking for divine intervention for a blessing. Michael the Arc responds without pause. 

Size: 26×26
Medium: Charcoal, Graphite Powder Charcoal, pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (unframed)
Price: SOLD

The Discovery

 (Inspired by RUSH’s 2112 Album)

THE DISCOVERY 
(from the song 2112)
What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It’s got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?
See how it sings like a sad heart
And joyously screams out its pain
Sounds that build high like a mountain
Or notes that fall gently like rain
I can’t wait to share this new wonder
The people will all see its light
Let them all make their own music
The Priests praise my name on this night
— RUSH 

Size: 18×24
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel Pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: SOLD

Seven Ravens

There was once a man who had seven sons, and still, he had no daughter, however much he wished for one. At length, his wife again gave him hope of a child, and when it came into the world, it was a girl. The joy was great, but the child was sickly and small and had to be privately baptized on account of its weakness. The father sent one of the boys in haste to the spring to fetch water for the baptism. The other six went with him, and as each of them wanted to be first to fill it, the jug fell into the well. There they stood and did not know what to do, and none of them dared to go home. As they still did not return, the father grew impatient and said, “They have certainly forgotten it for some game, the wicked boys!” He became afraid that the girl would have to die without being baptized, and in his anger, cried, “I wish the boys were all turned into ravens.” Hardly was the word spoken before he heard a whirring of wings over his head in the air, looked up, and saw seven coal-black ravens flying away.
(Excerpt from Seven Ravens by The Brothers Grimm)

Size: 18×24
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel Pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: SOLD

Time Passages

(This illustration was inspired by the song
“Time Passages.” by Al Stewart)

The scene captured here is our main character, PFC Robert “Doc” Carruso, Medic, American Expeditionary Forces 1917, as he is nearing the end of his incredible journey on the desert planet of Jakku in a galaxy far, far away.

Time Passages is, let’s see how I should phrase this; well, it is inspired by actual events, true enough. It could be considered a personal diary or memoir, even a historical account of one man’s fantastic walk of life, which ends up in the hands of the most unlikely soul.
A Memoir written by PFC Robert “Doc” Caruso, Medic, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-?

The telling of this story begins with an ending of sorts; walk with me, let’s palaver…

Size: 22×36
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel Pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (unframed)
Price: $3500

The Jabberwocky Slayer

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 
The frumious Bandersnatch!
He took his vorpal sword in hand; 
Long time the manxome foe he sought— 
So rested he by the Tumtum tree 
And stood awhile in thought.”
– Lewis Carroll

Size: 22×22
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel Pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (unframed)
Price: SOLD

Lorelei The Satyress

and Rhoko the Ermine Weasel
(The Chronicles of Rion ©)

Size: 18×24
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel Pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: SOLD

Hunting Nichusa

(The Chronicles of Rion©)

Echo Grymm, the shape-shifting hunter, and her two siblings track the Daemon Hichusa in the service of King Jeph Rion.

Size: 20×36
Medium: Charcoal, Graphite Powder Charcoal, pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (unframed)
Price: $3,500

Thera Nehebu

Sisterhood of the Serpent

“Beauty is an illusion that eyes see, and mind discerns
~ a serpent that looks charming but stings hard
~ a witch that tempts and damns.” 
― Mubashar Nawaz & Khurram Shahzad

Size: 20×24
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (unframed)
Price: SOLD

Uma & The Viper Dragon

(The Chronicles of Rion©)

“There is no hunting like the hunting that of the centaur, and those of us who have hunted armed centaurs long enough and loved it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
—Vermithrax, the Ancient
Viper Dragon creation by: Kurtis Dawe @kurtisdawe_creative
(thank you so very much)

Size: 22×22
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: SOLD

The Little Match Girl

“And the matches burned with such a glow that it became brighter than daylight. Grandmother had never been so grand and beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and both of them flew in brightness and joy above the earth, very, very high, and up there was neither cold, nor hunger, nor fear-they were with God.”
~ Hans Christian Andersen

Size: 18×24
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: SOLD

The Successor

“I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.”
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula

Size: 20×30
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: $3,000

Puss & Boots

“We’re about to attack a fearsome creature who has ruined Carabas and is responsible for the sudden outpouring of cooperation found in the goblins and the placement of the candy cottage witch, and your foremost concern is that he keeps his drawers on?” 
Gabrielle hissed. 
“You haven’t seen a naked ogre or wouldn’t judge me for my worry.” 
― K.M. Shea, Puss in Boots

Size: 16×26
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: $3,000

Checkmate

The Black Knight of King’s Gambit

“Chess is a war over the board.
The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.”
– Bobby Fischer

Size: 22×33
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder, Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: SOLD

The Au Pair

“But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.” 
― Victoria Schwab

Au Pair was inspired by a photo taken by 
the brilliant photographer Nirav Patel. Thank you!

Size: 20×24
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder,
Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: $2,500

The Spirit Walk

(The Chronicles of Rion ©)

The witch, Bainith, meets with the Elders of the Gypsy clan of the Black Veil, hoping to find the meaning of THE WHITE SHROUD PROPHECY. She is directed to the sweat lodges at the San Andreas Cliffs for a Peyote Spirit Walk back to the Time Of The Prophets. 
( V in The Gossamer Witch Series©)

Model: Liv Sage
Reference photo by Photosensualis

Size: 16×20
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder,
Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: SOLD

The Gossamer Witch

& The White Shroud

(The Chronicles of Rion ©)
IV in The Gossamer Witch Series©

Model: Liv Sage
Reference photo by Valentino Scaramella 

Size: 18×24
Medium: Charcoal & Graphite Powder,
Charcoal & Pastel pencils, and Panpastels on paper. (framed)
Price: $2,500