Infected By Art Volume 13 Selected Work

I am happy to announce that I have been selected for inclusion in Infected By Art Volume 13. I love IBA, and it is a true joy to be included in a publication that features so much amazing real art. You can see a complete list of the art included in IBA 13 on their website. This year, the Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia was again selected, and I could not be happier!

The Airship
The Grand Bazaar of Ethra Dalia - The Completed Circle
11 x 14 - Pencil, ink, and acrylic paint on paper
Original - SOLD
© 2024 Christopher Burdett

I submitted a mix of work created for the Grand Bazaar and clients. It always pleases me when my personal work beats out client work, not that I do better work for myself, but because the pieces I do for myself are better received by others and transcend (hopefully) being drawings only about monsters. While I am surprised by which pieces were passed up, I am delighted this one made the cut. If you are curious, here is everything I submitted for consideration in IBA 12.

Congrats to everyone who made it in, and a huge thanks to the jury and Bill Cox for all his work in making IBA a reality. I can't wait to see the completed book firsthand!

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog. See you back here on Friday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Infected By Art Volume 12 Selected Work

I am happy to announce that I have been selected for inclusion in Infected By Art Volume 12. I love IBA, and it is a true joy to be included in a publication that features so much amazing real art. You can see a complete list of the art included in IBA 12 on their website. This year, while several pieces from the Grand Bazaar were passed up, it looks like a recent piece for Dungeons & Dragons was selected!

Cranium Rats in Disguise

Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

11 x 14 - Digital

Art Director - Emi Tamji

© 2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC

This was my favorite piece that I did for that book, and is remains one of my favorite recents works for D&D. And this shows, as always, you never knoew what will make it into a juried event. If you are curious, here is everything I submitted for consideration in IBA 12.

Congrats to everyone that made it in, and a huge thanks to the jury and to Bill Cox for all his work in making IBA a reality. I can't wait to see the completed book firsthand!

That is all for another exciting surprise Thursday on the blog. See you back here on Friday! Until then...

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Infected By Art Volume 11 - A World of Stories

While at IX last month, I was able to get my copies of this year's Infected by Art. I always look forward to getting my copies at the event, and it has become a bit of a tradition in that respect. This year marks the release of volume 11 of IBA, and once again, I have a piece included. A World of Stories from the upcoming The Completed Circle got a full page in IBA #11, and I think it printed great. Here are images of the book, my art, and my art in the book.

The IX exclusive cover for Infected by Art #11

A World of Stories
The Grand Bazaar of Ethra Dalia - The Completed Circle
16 x 20 - Pencil, ink, and acrylic paint on paper
Original - SOLD
© 2022 Christopher Burdett

A World of Stories in IBA #11

That's all for another exciting week on the blog. See you back here on Monday! Until then...

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Infected By Art Volume 11 Selected Work

I am happy to announce that I have been selected for inclusion in Infected By Art Volume 11. I love IBA, and it is a real honor to be included with many other great artists and their work. You can see a complete list of the art included in IBA 11 on their website. As I said, lots of great work! Regarding my work, A World of Stories, from the upcoming The Grand Bazaar of Ethra Dalia - The Completed Circle, was selected.

A World of Stories
The Grand Bazaar of Ethra Dalia - The Completed Circle
16 x 20 - Pencil, ink, and acrylic paint on paper
Original - SOLD
© 2022 Christopher Burdett

You can never know what will or will not make it into a juried event, and it is always interesting to see what does make it through the selection process. If you are curious, here is everything I submitted for consideration in IBA 11. It is not lost on me that none of the client work I did for Magic the Gathering made it in, but my work for my book did. Continued evidence that I am headed on the correct path for me.

Congrats to everyone that made it in, and a huge thanks to the jury and to Bill Cox for all his work in making IBA a reality. I can't wait to see the completed book firsthand!

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog. See you back here on Friday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Infected By Art Volume 10 Selected Work

I am happy to announce that I have been selected for inclusion in Infected By Art Volume 10. I love IBA, and it is a real honor to be included with so many other great artist and their work. You can see a complete list of the art included in IBA 10 over on their website. As I said, lots of great work! As far as my work, Cryptic Knight, from the upcoming The Grand Bazaar of Ethra Dalia - The Completed Circle, was selected.

Cryptic Knight

The Grand Bazaar of Ethra Dalia - The Completed Circle
13 x 17 - Pencil, ink, and acrylic paint on paper
Original - SOLD
© 2021 Christopher Burdett

You can never know what will or will not make it into a juried event, and it is always interesting to see what does make it through the selection process. If you are curious, here is everything that I submitted for consideration in IBA 10. Congrats to everyone that made it in, and a huge thanks to the jury and to Bill Cox for all his work in making IBA a reality. I can't wait to see the completed book first hand!

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog. See you back here on Friday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Infected By Art 8 - The Grand Map of the Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia

This week I received my copies of Infected By Art 8. It is a gorgeous publication filled with fantastic art. It is an honor to be included in it. IBA8 is special for me because as I was finishing up working on The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia, I only had a single new piece of art that I felt was deserving to be submitted. Since I had nearly completely stepped away from freelance work in the last push to finish the writing for the book, I simply didn't have any new art. No new art save for the map of the Grand Bazaar that I completed in 2019. Instead of waiting a year, I decided to go ahead and submit the single piece, and to my surprise and excitement, it made it in. A huge thanks go out to William Cox, Jon Schindehette, Art Order, and the jury of IBA8 for their work on this stellar tome of art. Here are some images of the book at my selected work.

 

Infected By Art 8 - IX variant cover and standard cover

The Grand Map of the Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia on the page in all its glory

The beautiful work that I get to share the page and spread with

 

The Grand Map of the Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia 

30 x 20 - Pencil, acrylic paint, and ink on paper

 Original - Available!

 © 2019 Christopher Burdett

That's all for another exciting week on the blog. See you back here on Monday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Infected By Art Volume 9 Selected Work

I am happy to announce that I have had a piece selected for inclusion in Infected By Art Volume 9. I really love IBA, and it is a real honor to be included with so many other great artist and their work. You can see a full list of the art included in IBA 8 over on their website. As I said, lots of great work! As far as my work, Vexed Beanmonger, from the upcoming The Grand Bazaar of Ethra Dalia - In the Black, was selected.

 

Vexed Beanmonger

The Grand Bazaar of Ethra Dalia - In the Black
11 x 14 - Pencil, ink, and acrylic paint on paper
Original - Available
© 2020 Christopher Burdett

You can never know what will or will not make it into a juried event, and it is always interesting to see what does make it through the selection process. While I like this piece a lot, I was a little surprised that it beat out pieces such as the Articulate Polyplot or my Magic the Gathering work. I then remembered that this was the first piece that I could complete after the COVID19 pandemic began. I think it is only fitting that this particulate piece was selected. It is the work that got me back to the drawing table and able to make art again.

If you are curious, here is everything that I submitted for consideration in IBA 9. Congrats to everyone that made it in, and a huge thanks to the jury and to Bill Cox for all his work in making IBA a reality. I can't wait to see the completed book first hand!

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog. See you back here on Friday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Infected by Art 7 and Spectrum 26

It is art annuals season! As I prepared for Illuxcon, I received my copy of Spectrum 26, and while at Illuxcon, I received my copy of Infected by Art 7. For this year's submissions, I only submitted works from The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia, and the Bazaar did not fail me, finding a place in both Infected by Art and Spectrum. Here are some images of my work in these two publications.

Infected by Art 7

 Hollow Alley received a full page and reproduced beautifully.

Spectrum 26 marks the first time I have been accepted into this publications. After ten years of submitting I made it in with a piece from my book. I have many opinions regarding Spectrum, its place within the greater art community, and the importance artist (especially young artists) place on the book. I don't really want to rehash it all, I have shared some of it here on the blog before. I will say that now that I have been accepted into it my feelings for myself or my work remain unchanged from those before I was accepted. For most of the morning they announced those accepted I had thought I had once again not be included and I was completely fine with it and planned to no long submit. I find solace that after all this time, the work selected was profoundly personal work from my book. That means something to me. The Spectrum box is checked off, and I have no further plans to submit. Maybe in the coming years as I produce some new work for my next two books I will submit some of the large complex pieces I have planned.

Spectrum 26

Strange how clearly I remember when Spectum 1 came out. It had a James Gurney cover and I was working at a comic book store at the time. The store owner made a huge deal about the book, about how important it was and the work within. It took me a quarter century, but I finally made it - not that I needed to.

 Blink and you might miss it.

Quarter page printing of Sunken Stalls. With the original being 16x20 I never imaged it being this small, but it still holds up.

That's all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog, see you back here on Friday!  Until then...

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Infected By Art Volume 7 Selected Work

I am happy to announce that I have had a piece selected for inclusion in Infected By Art Volume 7. I really love IBA, and it is a real honor to be included with so many other great artist and their work. You can see a full list of the art included in IBA 7 over on their website. As I said, lots of great work! Here is the piece that was accepted, Hollow Alley created for The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia...

Hollow Alley
16 x 20 - Pencil, ink, and acrylic paint on paper
Currently Available Grand Bazaar Originals
© 2018 Christopher Burdett

This might be my favorite piece completed so far for The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia. It is nice to see that this was the piece that was selected to be featured in IBA 7. If you are curious, here is everything that I submitted for consideration in IBA 7. Congrats to everyone that made it in and a huge thanks to the jury and to Bill Cox for all his work in making IBA a reality. I can't wait to see the completed book first hand!

That is all for another exciting Monday on the blog. See you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Infected By Art Volume 6 Selected Work

I am happy to say that I have had a piece selected for inclusion in Infected By Art Volume 6. I really love IBA, and it is a real honor to included with so many other great artist and their work. You can see a full list of the art included in IBA6 over on their website. As I said, lots of great work! Here is the piece that I did that was accepted, the Virulent Artificer created for The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia...

Virulent Artificer 11 x 14 - Pencil on paper 

Currently Available Grand Bazaar Originals

© 2017 Christopher Burdett

It is always a little ego bump when my personal work is selected over client work. In the end, you never really know what will be chosen. Here is a link to view everything that I submitted for consideration in IBA6. Congrats to everyone that made it in and a huge thanks to the jury and to Bill Cox for all his work in making IBA a reality. I can't wait to see the completed book first hand!

That is all for another exciting week on the blog. See you back here next week! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Fretwork Colony - Infected By Art Volume 5

Last week I shared with you the process and steps that went into making the Fretwork Colony that I produced for the Kaladesh expansion to Magic the Gathering. I failed to mention that while I was at Illuxcon last month I got my hands on Infected By Art Volume 5 in which the Fretwork Colony is featured. Once again here is the Fretwork Colony...

Fretwork Colony

Magic the Gathering - Kaladesh

14 x 10.2- Digital

PRINTS available at OMA!

ARTIST PROOFS available over on my web store! 

© 2016 Wizards of the Coast

I would like to thank again everyone involved with Infected By Art! It is an honor and pleasure to be once again included in the book. The book is beautiful and each edition keeps getting better and better. I have some images of the Fretwork Colony in the book, but please ignore the crappy quality of my images. They do the quality of the book a great disservice, but I wanted to show off the page I was on. I am already looking forward to seeing how IBA 6 turns out, I am sure it will be even better!

Fretwork Colony in Infected By Art Volume 5

Please look past the crappy photo of the page, this book is beautifully printed!

A look at the entire page that the Fretwork Colony in on.

Please look past the crappy photo of the page, this book is beautifully printed!

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog, see you back here on Friday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Infected By Art Book - Volume 5

Still catching up on announcements from the past couple of month. Happy to announce that once again I will be appearing in the Infected By Art Book. Volume 5 will be out later this year and I will have one piece featured in the book. This time around it will be my Fretwork Colony from Magic the Gathering Kaladesh expansion. Always interesting to see what gets picked by the judges. To be honest, this was the last piece I was expecting to get into the book... and it was the only piece to get in. You never can predict the outcome of these sort of things. Once again here is the Fretwork Colony...

Fretwork Colony

Magic the Gathering - Kaladesh

14 x 10.2- Digital

PRINTS available at OMA!

© 2016 Wizards of the Coast

A big thanks to the fine folks behind IBA and to everyone involved with the IBA5 selection process! I can not wait to see how this year's book turns out. Hopefully we will be getting out hands on them again at IX in October.

That is all for another exciting week on the blog, see you back here on Monday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Infected By Art 4 - Public voting now live!

I have submitted a group of pieces to be considered for inclusion in Infected By Art 4. Public voting on these pieces is now open and runs through December 13th. While the book is juried there are places reserved in the book for pieces voted on by the public. If you have a chance I strongly encourage you to head over to the IBA website and vote on your favorite pieces. If your choices happens to include some of my pieces, even better! You can see all of my submission in one location by using this LINK. Thanks in advance for your time!

Voting is now open for you favorite pieces of work over on Infected By Art!

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog, see you back here on Friday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Spectrum for me and you with volume 22

It is Spectrum submission time again, at least for another few hours. I have written about spectrum several times over the years here on the blog and you can read more HERE. I have very little new to add about Spectrum this year save that I did in fact submit some pieces for consideration in Spectrum 22. Or should I say, I made my annual tax deductible tithe to Spectrum.

If you are going to submit to Spectrum 22 you better hurry, the deadline is today!

I am submitting some personal work and some client work this year and have very little expectation of getting in. That is the way of things, they are "the best of the best". Ultimately, I can't get in if I do not submit, so I might as well submit and not make it for real, and get a tax deduction. I tried the digital submission process this year for the first time and it was preferable to sending in prints.

On the flip side, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I did make it into Infected By Art 3! Which is super cool and I am thrilled to be a part of this new and growing publication. I submitted some of the very same work to both publications so hopefully some of the mass appeal of my accepted work to IBA3 will rub off on my submitted work to Spectrum 22. We will see in the coming months when my ego is crushed once again.

Let's all think positively!

That is all for another exciting Monday on the blog, see you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

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Infected By Art 3 and Gen Con 2015

I have a could more news items/updates to share with you today...

Infected By Art 3

I have submitted a group of pieces to be considered for inclusion in Infected By Art 3. Public voting on these pieces is now open and runs through December 9th. While the book is juried there are places reserved in the book for pieces voted on by the participating public. All I am asking is that if you have the time to head on over and vote on the pieces of work that you enjoy most. If that happens to include some of my pieces, even better! You can see all of my submission in one location by using this LINK. Thanks in advance for your time!

Voting is now open for you favorite pieces of work over on Infected By Art!

Gen Con 2015

I am happy to announce that I have been selected for the Gen Con Art Show in 2015. They started a jury process as of this year and it looks like I made the cut. This will be my 5th year in the Gen Con Art Show and I am really looking forward to it! There should be a lot of new faces and some returning familiar one. I will also have a ton of originals with me and it will hopefully be the best looking booth I have set up yet. If you are attending Gen Con 2015 be sure to stop by the Art Show and say hello and check out all 88 artists appearing there next year!

That is all for another exciting Friday on the blog, see you back here on Monday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com