2019 Original Art Sale

Posted on September 20, 2019 by John Picacio

Heads up, Original Art Collectors — here’s a list of some of my prized original artworks available now. First come, first served. I suspect some of these will go very quickly.

Many of you are interested in the Loteria Originals. Eleven of them have already sold at the price range below, and I’m grateful that those belong in the collections they do. ‘La Campana’, ‘El Corazon’, ‘El Pescado’, and ‘El Nopal’ are available. Details below!

I also have my Tyrion Lannister Original Art available for all of you GAME OF THRONES and A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE lovers out there. 🙂

Email me at john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com if you want to score an original for your very own — OR if you have any questions.

Thanks for stopping by. On with the show!

(above) LA CAMPANA (The Bell) / Original Final Drawing

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

$5500 • Ships FRAMED AND MATTED • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

To purchase, email john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com with the subject line, “Original Art”. We’ll exchange emails and I’ll give the payment info so that we can finalize the transaction via Paypal.

SOLD! (above) EL CORAZON (The Heart) / Original Final Drawing

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

$5000 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

SOLD! (above) EL PESCADO (The Fish) / Original Final Drawing

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

$5000 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) EL NOPAL (The Cactus) / Original Final Drawing

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

$5000 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) TYRION LANNISTER / Original Final Artwork from the award-winning 2012 George R. R. Martin / A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 15″ x 20″ (drawing dimension) • 17″ x 22″ (full sheet dimension)

$3500 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) YODA: TEMPERANCE / Original Final Artwork

Graphite and gold acrylic on Strathmore Illustration Board (the gold shimmers across the whole surface, alternating through coppers and bronzes, as light shifts) • 11″ x 17″ (drawing dimension) • 18″ x 24″ (full sheet dimension) • 24.5″ x 30.5″ (framed dimension)

$3500 • Ships FRAMED AND MATTED • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) EVERNIGHT / Original Final Drawing

2019 Chesley Award Finalist!

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 15.5″ x 19.5″ (framed dimension)

$2500 • Ships FRAMED AND MATTED • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) KINGDOM OF THE SERPENT: DESTROYER OF WORLDS / Original Final Drawing for the cover of the Mark Chadbourn novel

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 13″ x 18″ (framed dimension)

$2000 • Ships FRAMED AND MATTED • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) X-MEN: COLOSSUS / Original Final Painting used for the cover of X-MEN: THE RETURN

Greyscale Oils and Acrylics on Crescent Board • 10″ x 14″

$450 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) X-MEN: NIGHTCRAWLER / Original Final Painting used for the cover of X-MEN: THE RETURN

Greyscale Oils and Acrylics on Crescent Board • 7.5″ x 14″

$350 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) X-MEN: CYCLOPS / Original Final Painting used for the cover of X-MEN: THE RETURN

Greyscale Oils and Acrylics on Crescent Board • 10″ x 10.5″

$350 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) SAREK: SPOCK’S FATHER / Original Final Drawing used for the cover of STAR TREK / MYRIAD UNIVERSES: INFINITY’S PRISM

Graphite on Crescent Board • 8.5″ x 11″

$350 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) THE ANDORIAN / Original Final Drawing used for the cover of STAR TREK / MYRIAD UNIVERSES: ECHOES AND REFRACTIONS

Graphite on Crescent Board • 11″ x 15″

$350 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) DAVID MARCUS: KIRK’S SON / Original Final Drawing used for the cover of STAR TREK / MYRIAD UNIVERSES: ECHOES AND REFRACTIONS

Graphite on Crescent Board • 11″ x 12″

$250 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) VULCAN WOMAN / Original Final Drawing used for the cover of STAR TREK / MYRIAD UNIVERSES: INFINITY’S PRISM

Graphite on Crescent Board • 14″ x 11″

$250 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) JULIAN BASHIR / Original Final Drawing used for the cover of STAR TREK / MYRIAD UNIVERSES: INFINITY’S PRISM

Graphite on Crescent Board • 11″ x 12″

$250 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) TEROK NOR / Original Final Drawing used for the covers of the STAR TREK: TEROK NOR trilogy

Graphite on Crescent Board • 14″ x 10.5″

$450 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) MOONGLUM / Original Spot Illustration Drawing for ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS

Graphite on Crescent Board • 14″ x 11″

$450 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) BURN / Original Spot Illustration Drawing for ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS

Graphite on Crescent Board • 11″ x 14″

$250 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) DANCER / Original Spot Illustration Drawing for ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS

Graphite on Crescent Board • 11″ x 14″

$250 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

(above) CRUEL FATE / Original Spot Illustration Drawing for ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS

Graphite on Crescent Board • 11″ x 14″

$350 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

SOLD! (above) DEMON / Original Spot Illustration Drawing for ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS

Graphite on Crescent Board • 10″ x 10″

$250 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

SOLD! (above) MELNIBONE / Original Spot Illustration Drawing for ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS

Graphite on Crescent Board • 11″ x 14″

$450 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

SOLD! (above) ELRIC / Original Spot Illustration Drawing for ELRIC: SWORDS AND ROSES

Graphite on Strathmore • 8.5″ x 11″

$200 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $100 for shipping outside the continental USA.

INFINITE WORLDS RECEPTION / AUSTIN, TX

Posted on November 20, 2018 by John Picacio

ASFA President Sara Felix has done what many thought impossible — created and curated a successful science fiction / fantasy gallery event that’s not located on a coast. The show is called Infinite Worlds and the reception was this past Saturday, November 10th at the Dougherty Arts Center in Austin, TX (sponsored by The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA)).

It will continue to run until Saturday, December 1st, so if you haven’t experienced it yet — SEE IT.

10% of the featured artworks were sold before the reception even opened its doors! And YES, COLLECTORS — almost all of the art on display is for sale. The Dougherty’s receptionists will be happy to direct you to the price list. 🙂 The reception’s attendance was robust. The artist roster is a who’s who of major sf/f artists from rising stars to masters of the field, and many of them attended the reception including Mariana Palova, Vincent Villafranca, Gary Villarreal, Tehani Farr, Priscilla Kim, Lauren Raye Snow, Dianita, Cody Jimenez, Kiri Østergaard Leonard, Mariya Prytula, Melissa Gay, Sara Felix, and yours truly.

My original art for the Wild Cards story ‘Evernight’ by Victor Milán (pictured right) is available for purchase during this show (graphite, 16″x20″, $1200), and my original Loteria art for ‘La Campana’ is also on display, although not for sale at this time.

It’s sometimes said that the middle of the US doesn’t have a big enough population of major artists and hungry collectors to support exhibitions of this caliber. Sara’s Infinite Worlds exhibition might end up being a gamechanger in that regard, especially if this becomes the first of a tradition in one of the most pop-culture savvy cities in America.

Art fans and collectors descend upon ASFA’s Infinite Worlds show in Austin, TX.

ASFA President Sara Felix delivers the opening welcome, with an assist from her daughter Eva.

Art by Tehani Farr, Vanessa Lemen, Francis Vallejo, Lauren Raye Snow, John Jude Palencar, Vincent Villafranca, and the Shiflett Brothers.

Art by Cody Jimenez, Sam Flegal, Ingrid Kallick, Eric Wilkerson, Greg Ruth, Vincent Villafranca, and the Shiflett Brothers.

Artist Cody Jimenez and his daughter. (Cody’s painting sold at the show before the Reception even opened its doors!)

Artist Dianita Ceron.

Detail of Vanessa Lemen’s ‘Time Will Tell’.

Detail of Eric Wilkerson’s ‘Alien Lives Matter’.

Detail of Tehani Farr’s ‘Ayla’.

Detail of Sara Felix’s ‘Geodes In Space’. (Sara’s piece also sold at the show before the Reception even began.)

Artist Priscilla Kim in a staring contest with my original Loteria art for ‘La Campana’.

Check out Sara Felix’s photo gallery for more views of the exhibition!

Loteria Original Art: Help Disaster Victims

Posted on September 14, 2017 by John Picacio

Our fellow humans in Houston, Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands have been walloped by natural disaster in recent days — and they need our help. Earlier this month, I made available one of my much-coveted shadowbox assemblages and it sold within minutes of being posted. A portion of that sale will be going to benefit Mexican earthquake relief efforts in Oaxaca, where they were devastated by an 8.1 earthquake on September 7th.

Now, I’m parting with five of my cherished Loteria drawings to generate more donation money toward recovery endeavors. A portion of these purchases will be donated to the food bank or relief effort of the buyer’s choice. I’m partial to the Mexican relief efforts because they delivered personnel and supplies to the US when Hurricane Harvey roared through Houston, and the honorable thing to do as Americans is reciprocate. Mexico City is recovering from a horrific 7.1 disaster on September 19th and I want to do all I can to help them. That said, I have friends and family in Houston, and while I’ve already donated to the Harvey effort, I would be thrilled to see more relief funds sent directly to Houston’s food banks. And of course, Florida and the Caribbean Islanders deserve our continuing attention as well, in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

Many of you are aware of my ongoing Loteria art series. I feel that these Loteria drawings are some of the most resonant I’ve done in my career to date. I’m 100% Mexican American, so every time I work on one of these — it’s PERSONAL. These visions are not just about me. They’re about my culture, our identity, and our dreams. There will be only be fifty-four of these final drawings when the series is completed, and several have previously sold immediately.

Here’s a guided tour of the five original works that are now available for the first time ever. Congratulations in advance to the lucky collectors that score one or more of these. I know many of you have been waiting for the chance to own one. Enjoy.

(above) EL CORAZON (The Heart) / Original Final Drawing
I almost talked myself out of posting this one for sale because it’s a favorite. Considering so many lives are struggling right now though, maybe it’s time for it to light the way for families living through a darkest hour. Many of you have been acquiring my limited-run Loteria Grande cards, and while ‘La Sirena’ and ‘La Calavera’ sold out the fastest, this card sold out soon after. It’s probably one of the most popular icons of my Loteria series so far.

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

$5000 • Ships flat and unframed • Includes free shipping within the continental USA • Please add $75 for shipping outside the USA • 10% of purchase price will be donated to relief effort of buyer’s choice

To purchase, email john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com with the subject line, “El Corazon”. We’ll exchange emails and I’ll give the payment contact info so that we can finalize the transaction via Paypal. I’ll then donate to your favorite food bank or relief charity — and ship your artwork to you.

(above) LA ROSA (The Rose) / Original Final Drawing / SOLD
This is the first final drawing I ever did for my Loteria series — the one that started it all. It was inspired by a promotional artwork I did for San Francisco’s Borderlands Books, and I then redid the concept as the drawing you see here for ‘La Rosa’. This was the first artwork I completed after winning the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, and it set the course for my career ever since.

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

To purchase, email john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com with the subject line, “La Rosa”. We’ll exchange emails and I’ll give the payment contact info so that we can finalize the transaction via Paypal. I’ll then donate to your favorite food bank or relief charity — and ship your artwork to you.

(above) EL PESCADO (The Fish) / Original Final Drawing
This was the second final drawing completed for the Loteria series, and it’s a favorite of Pisces lovers everywhere. This one was a turning point for me because it represented a standard for not just sheer physical execution, but a pursuit of concept that needed to be pushed with every icon. Like ‘El Corazon’ above, I almost didn’t post this one for sale because I dearly love it, but seeing so many trying to keep their daily existences afloat — it just seems like the right moment.

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

To purchase, email john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com with the subject line, “El Pescado”. We’ll exchange emails and I’ll give the payment contact info so that we can finalize the transaction via Paypal. I’ll then donate to your favorite food bank or relief charity — and ship your artwork to you.

(above) EL PARAGUAS (The Umbrella) / Original Final Drawing / SOLD
This guy has lived in my dreams for as long as I can remember. He finally found shelter in our reality when I finished this drawing a few years ago. I feel like these images are messages from an ancestral past. They’re not all memories of what came before and where we’ve been, but glimpses of where we’re headed and what might lie ahead.

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

To purchase, email john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com with the subject line, “El Paraguas”. We’ll exchange emails and I’ll give the payment contact info so that we can finalize the transaction via Paypal. I’ll then donate to your favorite food bank or relief charity — and ship your artwork to you.

(above) EL NOPAL (The Cactus) / Original Final Drawing
This kid feels like a kindred spirit. I think we all feel like him at some point in our lives. I think some of us do on a daily basis. There’s a lot of angst and pain in this world of ours right now. So many have had their hard-earned worlds ripped away in a blink. What would we want if that was us? If this drawing finds a new home, then hopefully it can help someone else along the path to finding a new one for themselves.

Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • 11″ x 18″ (drawing dimension) • 14″ x 21″ (full sheet dimension)

To purchase, email john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com with the subject line, “El Nopal”. We’ll exchange emails and I’ll give the payment contact info so that we can finalize the transaction via Paypal. I’ll then donate to your favorite food bank or relief charity — and ship your artwork to you.

LIES AND UGLINESS: THE ORIGINAL ART

Posted on September 13, 2017 by John Picacio

(UPDATE: This original artwork was for sale today — and it sold in less than an hour. WOW. Thank you and congratulations to author Mark Van Name for scoring this for his collection. Most importantly, we’ve chosen to donate a portion of the proceeds to Mexican earthquake relief, and are now deciding which charitable conduit is best. NEXT: I’ll have FIVE previously not-for-sale Loteria original artworks available for purchase, with portions of proceeds going to further help victims of recent natural disaster in Houston, Florida, the Islands and Mexico.)

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Like many of you, I’ve been trying to do my part to help Houstonians devastated by Hurricane Harvey, as well as Floridians and Islanders impacted by Hurricane Irma. The Mexican Earthquake victims have not left my daily attention, since that massive 8.1 earthquake struck on September 7th. They need our help there, even as they’ve been heroically offering their own relief assistance to the United States.

Sixteen years ago this week, Americans felt compelled to rally around our own. Whenever I look at this piece of original art, I think of 9/11. I had become a fulltime professional illustrator in April of that year, resigning my job in the residential architecture field. More than anything in the world, I wanted to be a professional sf/f book cover artist. It was a heady time. I was slowly building a pro art career, as publishing clients were beginning to take notice of my early cover and magazine work. That morning, I was sketching ideas for the cover of Brian Hodge’s collection Lies and Ugliness. The phone rang, and I heard my mother’s voice, “Are you watching?”

“TV’s not on.”

“A plane crashed into the World Trade Center. It’s on fire.”

“Oh my god. What channel?”

“All of them,” she said.

“OK. Love you. Bye.”

I watched a towering grey cloud billow across a field of blue, as my drawing hand went buzzy and tingly — and then the second plane hit. I don’t remember any work after that. What I do know is this cover idea was born on that terrible day because one of the morning’s thumbnails eventually evolved into the final artwork you see here. I’ve always called this artwork “Lies and Ugliness” because that’s the name of the book it illustrated, but those words and their synchronicity resonate more profoundly as years unfold.

In those fledgling days, I was experimenting across a wide range of media. I still have people ask me, “When are you going to do another shadowbox assemblage cover?” This cover was one of those, and the answer is “not anytime soon” because these were so time-consuming. I did my assemblage covers by hand, with traditional media. The drawing and painting wasn’t the time-consuming part. It was the search for found objects, the construction, and then the careful installation of the pieces. It added an uncertainty and vitality that was incredibly fun, but not the most efficient process either. I was learning lessons and working through my influences at that time — Cornell, McKean, Bantock, Rauschenberg, and so on.

In my 2006 art book Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio, I shared what I thought about the manuscript, and what I was thinking when I did this artwork, “Upon closer study, there was a common denominator: the exploration of faith and sexuality and their effects on the mundane and epic — especially their effects on the perception of the ‘truth’. In many of the stories, Hodge almost seemed to relish in the violent ideological collisions between the pagan and the Christian. There’s a mad love of ritual….”

I also described how the original was created. “I drew and painted the Christ figure in mixed media on masonite, and then positioned it into a homemade wooden box that was built and painted proportionally to the cover dimension. The gargoyle is a a found object that I carved, textured and painted to make it more fearsome. After carefully melding the painting and the gargoyle, the two were surrounded with silk roses, which I painted and touched up individually by hand to make them look just right.”

So here we are — sixteen years later — and I’d like to use this original artwork to help people in need, as best I can. I’m donating 10% of the proceeds from this one to the food bank or relief charity of the buyer’s choice. I’m also pricing this original lower so that it gives the best chance for a donation to occur. For example, my Loteria original graphite drawings (11″ x 18″) currently sell in the $5000 range, so the price listed below for this early shadowbox original is a rare bargain for my stuff — and these shadowbox originals almost never become available. 🙂

Dimensions: 12.5″ wide x 19″ high x 2.5″ deep

Weight: 7 lbs. (before shipping)

Price: Only $1500 (includes free shipping within the continental United States / please add $100 for shipping outside of the United States)

Contact: john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com — Email me with the subject line “Lies and Ugliness”. First come, first serve. We’ll exchange emails and I’ll give the payment contact info so that we can finalize the sale via Paypal. I’ll then donate to your favorite food bank or relief charity — and ship your artwork to you.

Good luck, all!

LOTERIA: THE ORIGINAL ART

Posted on November 27, 2016 by John Picacio

This past October, I was proud to exhibit eight of my Loteria final graphite drawings together for the first time at Worlds Beyond Gallery, co-sponsored by Alamo City Comic Con and The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA). I spent many days and nights drawing these, and this was the first time these beloved originals were formally exhibited together. It was fun watching people circulate through the display, eyeballing the work up close. Over the years, I’ve turned down several buy offers because I wanted to present them together at a special occasion like Worlds Beyond.

Now that I’ve done that, these eight originals are now available for sale, and I suspect some of them will sell very quickly. All prices include shipping within the continental United States. Please email me with questions and inquiries. john (at) johnpicacio (dot) com

(below) LA SIRENA • WINNER / 2013 Chesley Award for Best Product Illustration • Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • Professionally-framed and matted with Masterpiece Acrylic • 11″ x 18″ (raw original dimension) • 17″ x 24″ (framed dimension) / SOLD(below) LA CALAVERA • FINALIST / 2015 Chesley Award for Best Product Illustration • Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • Professionally-framed and matted with Masterpiece Acrylic • 11″ x 18″ (raw original dimension) • 17″ x 24″ (framed dimension) / $6500(below) EL VENADO • FINALIST / 2015 Chesley Award for Best Unpublished Monochrome Work • Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • Professionally-framed and matted with Masterpiece Acrylic • 11″ x 18″ (raw original dimension) • 17″ x 24″ (framed dimension) / $5000 / SOLD(below) LA BOTELLA • Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • Professionally-framed and matted with Masterpiece Acrylic • 11″ x 18″ (raw original dimension) • 17″ x 24″ (framed dimension) / $5000 / SOLD(below) EL ARPA • FINALIST / 2014 Chesley Award for Best Product Illustration • Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • Professionally-framed and matted with Masterpiece Acrylic • 11″ x 18″ (raw original dimension) • 17″ x 24″ (framed dimension) / $6500(below) LA LUNA • FINALIST / 2014 Chesley Award for Best Unpublished Monochrome Work • Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • Professionally-framed and matted with Masterpiece Acrylic • 11″ x 18″ (raw original dimension) • 17″ x 24″ (framed dimension) / $6500(below) EL MUNDO • Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • Professionally-framed and matted with Masterpiece Acrylic • 11″ x 18″ (raw original dimension) • 17″ x 24″ (framed dimension) / $5000(below) EL ARBOL • WINNER / 2016 Chesley Award for Best Product Illustration • Graphite on Strathmore 500 Bristol • Professionally-framed and matted with Masterpiece Acrylic • 11″ x 18″ (raw original dimension) • 17″ x 24″ (framed dimension) / $7000