Recent Projects

Child of the Mountains, by Marilyn Sue Shank, is a middle-grade novel about the struggles of a girl growing poor in the 1950’s in Appalachia. I had recently taken taken a number of landscape photos of the region on a road trip from Florida to Ohio, so I had the background ready to go. It was just a matter of photographing the model to match, and some careful compositing.



CLIENT: RANDOM HOUSE
ART DIRECTOR: VIKKI SHEATSLEY





Above is the cover photograph for Riding For The Brand, a collection of western short stories by Louis L’Amour.

Below is the cover montage for another Louis L’Amour western title, Tucker, this one a novel. The cowboy, horses, and ship I culled from stock, the landscape is mine. In this case I found the stock photos first, then shot the beach scene to match found images.





cowboy on horse © Daniel Lobo
extra horse on beach © Jodi Jacobson
ship: unknown photographer

CLIENT: RANDOM HOUSE
ART DIRECTORS: BEAU L’AMOUR, SCOTT BIEL


Below are two unpublished comps for a novel, Bird Sisters, by Rebecca Rasmussen. The story centers on the relationship of two sisters growing up in small town Wisconsin in the late 1940’s.



CLIENT: CROWN PUBLISHING
ART DIRECTOR: JESSIE SAYWARD BRIGHT


Below is the cover image for The Exceptionals, by Erin Cashman. This teen fantasy novel reminded me slightly of an American Harry Potter. It is a battle of good vs. evil, and the protagonist, a fifteen year-old girl who can communicate telepathically with animals, attends a boarding school in New England, where all of the students have special powers.



CLIENT: HOLIDAY HOUSE
ART DIRECTOR: CLAIRE COUNIHAN