SF, Fantasy & Horror Images
Magazine Cover Illustration
Shkai’ra Chiefkin
Painting - Shkai'ra Chiefkin
Overview
Cover - Sheepfarmer's Daughter
This image was produced in its original form in 1981 during a four-day marathon painting session as the cover for the science fiction and fantasy magazine Miriad #6. In that issue the first of three parts of the short story Snowbrother by Steve Stirling was published; it was later expanded into his first novel. This painting was produced to portray the main character — a female leader of a warrior band.
Indent: dot clear gifYears later this painting attracted the eye of Baen Books who asked me to modify the heraldic imagery so that they could use it as the cover of the first book in The Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy by author Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter published in 1988. The orignial painting has been sold by then so I had a large photogaphic print made and I made the required modifications on that in oil paint. The series is about a young farm-girl who leaves home to embark upon a quest to become a paladin warrior.
Indent: dot clear gif The painting is acrylic on artboard. The original heraldic symbols were a skull and crossed red lighting bolts on a black field; the revised heraldry depicted a fox on a purple field.
Image copyright © 1981 & 1988 to 2010 by Kevin Davies. All rights reserved.
Original Painting:
The original painting was sold to a private collector at the World Science Fiction Collection in 1983.
Photo Prints are available of Shkai’ra Chiefkin:
• Photo Print: 8" x 10", Signed & Numbered (Series of 500): $25.00 US Funds*.
• Special order prints at customer specified sizes (up to poster size) also available – email for a quote based on current photo reproduction supplier rates.
* Price includes shipping to Canada or United States (foreign orders will be advised of any additional shipping cost before order is shipped).
* Please be advised that the colors of a print reproduction may not exactly match the colors of an image as depicted on this website or the colors of the original artwork, due to the various digital and/or photo-mechanical processes involved in creating it.
Reproduction Rights are available for Shkai’ra Chiefkin:
I can supply a hi-res digital file on CD; I can scale to a specific size and save as RGB, CMYK, and tif, eps, psd, pdf, as desired.
Illustration Commissions and Graphic Design Assignments:
I am always willing to consider new illustration commissions and graphic design assignments. Please contact me to discuss the details.
For more information or to place an order contact Kevin Davies:

by email: webmail@kevindavies.com

by phone: 416-461-9884.

or mail a certified check or international money-order in US funds to:

Kevin Davies
40 Seymour Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M4J 3T4, Canada

If ordering from Canada, email first and I’ll provide the current US funds conversion rate so you can send your payment in Canadian Funds.