New Book Release.." God Saves Jerusalem".

I love illustrating historic or nature oriented books especially.  Each project brings an opportunity to research and learn.  For this book I researched ancient Jerusalem via virtual tours and photos and looked at sculptural reliefs for clothing, chariots and the hanging gardens.  You won't see all of my research but it's all needed to get the feeling of time, place and character.

Illustrated by Steven James Petruccio

Author- Larry Burgdorf

Published by Arch Books, Concordia Publishing

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Some of the steps for this book...

Relief sculpture reference...

...pencil sketch...

                                                
                                                   










...finished painting.

I returned from my vacation and thought I'd share some of the watercolor sketches I did while I was away from the drawing board in my studio.  Here are some interesting sites from the Bahamas...a church  on the beach, a conch salesman and a carving on the ship among others.  So I never really stop drawing or painting.