Richard H. Fay

My art appears on the cover of Shelly Bryant's poetry collection Under the Ash, published by Sam's Dot Publishing. This time around, I was actually able to read the collection before I composed the cover art. I tried to incorporate imagery inspired by a few of Shelly's poems into the drawing. The piece that developed as a result has some pretty strange elements, and was rather disturbing to draw. I especially worried that the figure hanging from the tree with a serpent around its neck would be too much, but that was one of the strongest images stuck in my head after reading Shelly's work. I simply had to include it in the overall composition. This piece may not be as garishly bright and eye-catching as my cover art for Brushfires, but I think it's attention-grabbing just the same.