You were a year I will not soon forget. Grateful. Here’s to a bigger, better year for all friends and family — and for our fragile blue marble — in 2014. Happy New Year, everyone. (Pictured above: ‘The Good Life’. Art © John Picacio / first published in the June 2013 issue of POPULAR SCIENCE.)
Of all the results of the 2014 Calendar’s Kickstarter campaign, the most gratifying for me is seeing the Grande Loteria prototype cards take shape. To the left of the color front and pencil back of my Grande Loteria cards pictured above, you see the traditional Loteria cards from the classic set by Don Clemente Inc.…
You’re looking at the finished products for my 2014 Calendar, companion sketchbook, and six Grande Loteria prototype cards! Currently packaging and shipping deliveries to all of my Kickstarter backers. In a little more than four days since receiving the goods from the printer, Lone Boy has shipped out 73% of the campaign’s packages. I’m rather…
Great news — I won an Art Order Challenge! Very cool, but there’s something much larger here than my work being selected in a juried competition. I’d like to share that view with those who care about the future of sf/f art. How many of you have loved the work that Arnie and Cathy Fenner…
Product illustration for Loteria card deck
Features the first twelve artworks from John Picacio’s forthcoming Loteria card deck
Congrats to Arnie and Cathy Fenner on TWENTY years of founding, shaping, and masterminding one of the premier art annuals on the planet. A gorgeous copy of the brand-new SPECTRUM volume just arrived on my porch the other day, and it’s a masterpiece. Also — it’s a swan song. They’re retiring from the book, and…
To everyone who made time to climb aboard my 2014 Calendar’s Kickstarter and made it a success — HUGELY GRATEFUL to you! I’m looking forward to fulfilling all of your packages and dialoguing with you in the coming days and weeks. ‘Appreciated!
Apologies in advance for the rounded math there, folks — but I think that’s the approximate number of times I tweeted, FBed, blogged, interviewed, pimped, mentioned, namedropped, and screamed from the rooftops about the 2014 John Picacio Calendar and its rewards, and the fact that they were exclusive to our 30-day Kickstarter Campaign. 🙂 Clearly…
