ART & Story

Writing was my first love and I still love painting with words. D.C. McElroy is the pen name of my writer-husband and, with his encouragement, I took on creating book covers and fantasy world maps. A new medium can be challenging, but that’s what art is for – to expand our horizons. You can find the books on Amazon and the website (built by xarktopia, because we do that as well) is at DCMcElroy.com.

Detail maps are crowded, but this was great fun for backgrounds and textures.

The idea was to create a paper-cut look with a silhouette that makes the setting the star. My first cover ever.

Not as easy as it looks but the look of 18th century cartography was the goal

A crow, because of course, and a wild ride in the dead of winter.

The world of the Darbas series. My first map and an original compass.

Fields and mountains created a stack of colors and flowing shapes.

Here there by monsters, although these are kinda cute.

Industrial era paintings were the pieces parts of this view of the title city.