Cover Art Originals:

 

Available cover art includes convention programs, magazines, rule books and package design.

Cover art is not matted or framed. Framing can be quoted for you if you want it done. The framer I use is excellent and reasonable.

For more information or to check for availability email. All images © Melissa A Benson. Please do not download without permission.

Payment can be made with PayPal, personal check, Postal Money Order or International Postal Money Order. All personal checks must clear the bank before artwork is sent & must be in U.S. currency drawn on an American Bank.

Art is done with Oils, Graphite, Dr Martin's Dyes & Berol Prismacolor pencils. Shipping is free on all cover art.

Camelot Legends / Cover Art / Doomtown / Dragon Storm / Galactic Empires / Jyhad / Magic / Other Originals / 7th Seas / Shadowfist / Star of the Guardian / Warlord Saga of the Storm

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Throwing Stones

  • Oil on Masonite
  • 22 x 28 inches
  • $1200.00

This is a rule book for the Gamesmiths dice game.

Originally done as a sample cover for Savage Sword of Conan Comic.

 

Detail of Throwing Stones

 

Scrye Magazine Issue #7
"EMPIRES IN CONFILICT"

  • Dye & color pencil on bristol
  • 10.5 x 14 inches
  • $800.00

Besides being a cover, this piece was also made into two card versions for the Galactic Empires Game.

One was croped to the knees and the other was the full version seen here.

Detail of Scrye Magazine #7

 

Shore Con Program Cover
"WHITE HEAD GRIFFIN"

  • Graphite pencil on bristol
  • 14 x 18 inches
  • $500.00

This piece was done as program cover art for a convention in New Jersey that I was invited to as guest artist.

White Head Griffin Detail

 


Troll Magazine Issue #1

  • Dye & color pencil on bristol
  • 10.5 X 12.5 inches
  • $400.00

This is a really tough magazine to find. I did it for Troll Magazine's first and only issue. It was included in the freebie packet given to attendees at Gen Con in 1997.

Detail of Troll Magazine #1

 


Duelist Magazine Issue #4
"HOUSHANK'S JUSTICE"

  • Dye & color pencil on bristol
  • 16 x 20 inches
  • $1000.00

Artists featured in the early Duelists did a cover and centerfold for that issue. I did these two werecats being sent out by my tigerian character Houshank.




Detail of Houshank's Justice

 

Pantheon 2

  • Oil on Masonite
  • 22 X 28 inches
  • $1200.00

Three Gods have been summoned for battle by a powerful wizard as he stands before his temple. He is seen on a plinth beneath the Water Goddess.

This art was used for the box cover on the Gamesmiths board game.

Detail of Pantheon 2

More Original Art

Camelot Legends / Cover Art / Doomtown / Dragon Storm / Galactic Empires / Jyhad / Magic / Other Originals / 7th Seas / Shadowfist / Star of the Guardian / Warlord Saga of the Storm