1. I will be a pro at Norwescon in 4 weeks; my panel discussions are all on Friday, and I will have stuff up in the Art Show. Should you be a con-goer who wishes something delivered, I will deliver to Norwescon.

2. A La Carte Albums is rapidly growing from my sideline into my full-on job. Which is both awesome in general, and slightly sad in that it means that at the end of a work day, the last thing I want to do is Photoshop, so there hasn’t been much/any new work worth showing in several months. (Though I’m hoping to have new traditional media pieces ready for Norwescon)

3. One of my pieces has risen from the depths of the flat file to become the cover for Nancy Fulda’s Backlash (e-book available at Smashwords) Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, this novelette was listed in Tangent Online’s 2010 recommended reading list. It is also *exactly* the kind of story I had in mind when I created the piece, which gives me a very happy feeling. On a similar note, most fitting use of another of my older pieces at AnthologyBuilder is Ruth Nestvold’s anthology “Give that Girl a Sword!”

4. I will be showing a mix of work at The Night Kitchen in May-June

5. I will be attending Encausticamp, so there should be some waxy goodness to see come August.

I haven’t figured out a really spiffy way yet to do before-and-after retouching display, so you are getting a photoillustration instead; the final version of Space Koi:

Space Koi, 2010. Photoillustration

It’s not the most photoshop intensive of my photoillustrations (that would be probably be one of the fantasy/goddess photoillustrations) but it is the one that I hadn’t yet posted the finished version of to my blog or website. (oops)

I have a 12×12 sheer metalprint of this in my shop, and it’s just yummy and sparkly.

You should go read it. I’ll wait.

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I must say that I am pleased not only that a story which touched one of my pieces was published, but that it is such a good story; it snuck quietly under my skin and then sent prickles skittering along my shoulderblades when I realized where it was headed. I like the story a LOT.

Oh, you wanted to see the piece? It looks like this:

And to celebrate, use the coupon code REDBRIDE in my online shop at artfire and shipping is free!

(And, uh, by Tuesday night many more pieces will have been added to the shop. Making art is fun. Remembering to try and sell it, much less so. Also, thanks to AnthologyBuilder for sponsoring the initial Match-that-Artwork contest, and for giving me the great pleasure of knowing books exist out there with my art on the covers, even if only in very small doses.

(And despite the fact that I’ve been showing it for two years, I apparently never added it to the website. Oops.)

Spring Street, Los Angeles, narrowed. from David Yoon on Vimeo.

(If I learned to make videos like this, would people be interested in seeing how, say, something in mode of Atlantis Vogue or Nigella Nebula comes together?)

Today, I found out that the story has been picked up for publications by one of my favorite sf magazines, Strange Horizons (to be published at some unknown future date).

I was going to have a special on orders of this print, but I realized that since I’m in the final two weeks of both shooting, printing and framing a show right now, that would be INSANE.

So I’m going to hold it until publication, and then there will be a SuperDuperSpecial.

But you should go check out Strange Horizons right now. It’s weekly, and chock full of goodness. I particularly liked The Duke of Vertumn’s Fingerling (by Elizabeth Carroll) this week.

Space Koi (work in progress). Photoillustration. 2009

This is not what I intended to create when I sat down at the computer this morning, but it just leapt right out at me. Fish do that, I guess. Now it needs to simmer for a few weeks.

The real problem with the space series is that there is so much subtlety in the deep shadows, and that just doesn’t show up in a web-size preview at all. I suspect this is going to be a big print.

Natural Woman 2050. Photoillustration.

Natural Woman 2050 (detail)

(Yes, this is an evolution of a Happy Pill piece, but with a more distinctly sf feeling.)

But when a discussion about print sizes and the recurring “we need more hot guys in fantasy art” discussions on a genre artists list I frequent came around again, I decided that perhaps he needed a makeover.

Now, in a more approachable (and old-time-y feel sepia) and more manageable 8×10 size, Poseidon’s Bouncer Redux:

I have not decided for sure if he actually gets a print run or not, though, so if you have an opinion (especially of the form “I want one, and I’m going to Confluence, Foolscap, Spocon and/or believe in online orders”) let me know.

The first version still needs a t-shirt, I think, probably with some more explicitly fish-hugger text.