Another welcome is somewhere else on the forum, but maybe this is the place to ask: are you planning a book with your art? I have very less room for paintings on a wall and love this kind of art in a book. Thanks!

Thanks- I have no current plans for a book of my work. I'm actually just getting started as a full time illustrator so it'll be a long time before I have a large enough body of work to attempt such a thing. I did the Pedal Giant Animals piece at the beginning of this year just a few months after quitting my former (non-art) day job. Thanks for the interest!

Michael, Welcome to the board. I love the design for the shirt. I would like to say that I was the first to buy one at ProgDay. Great design. I look forward to more of your work.

Thanks so much for the warm welcome. I'm glad you like the shirt- I'm wearing mine today.

Hi Michael,

Just read the interview you did with Advent. Funny you mention Escher and Dali, some of your art, like the Advent-cover or your webdesign looks to me like a fine mix of those two very different artists. I have Escher's Metamorphose hanging in my music-room for years now (in fact the only poster I can show, because all the other walls are being filled with CD's, LP's and books ;-) ). Great you also know the work of Jacek Yerka. When I visited his site I thought I recognized his style from CD-covers from Lana Lane and Rocket Scientists and after checking my only Lana Lane album I noticed I was right. I ordered his book right away, so thanks for the link! You can see I'm a real collector of record-sleeves; I have more than 50 (or maybe 100) books with record-covers and of course Roger Dean's Views was one of the first in the late 70's, together with the first Album Cover Album. It's an art-form that was threatened to die a soft death after the arrival of the CD, but fortunatelly the artists have found other ways to make the covers look great. But still, the LP-covers stand out. Recently I bought a great book with jazz-covers, The Color Of Jazz: www.rangefindermag.com/magazine/Feb07/showpage.taf?page=10
Well, this isn't a quick reply anymore, so I'll stop now....

Cool- I don't have a turntable but I buy records just for the artwork. CD's definitely don't have quite the same effect, but I still think it (the artwork) is important. The fusing of the two art forms- music and the visual arts- fascinates me.

Got that book today! Wonderful stuff from Jacek Yerka.

Just noticed Michael is updating his site. On the index-page he mentions his work for the new OS-album, but the Gallery-pages is still in the works for that cover.