After 8 years of painting 12 images of Dragons for TideMarks Dragon calendar I am getting a break. Barnes and Noble as well as Borders both announced the extreme financial problems the 2 are having to all Calendar publishers this year and stated that they will only be taking on the “lowest possible price wholesale and only a couple of titles in these genre’s. Basically unless you sell to them below cost or have a pop culture hit like Twilight they are not going to stock the calendar as Tidemark expressed to me.
Barnes and Noble CEO was quoted a few months back claiming the reason for their tough financial condition was their loss of the market share from the Nooks failure to compete against the Kindle as well as WallMarts $8.99 top ten best sellers. They just can’t compete with these products. They also attempted to sell to Amazon but that failes as well. Borders has been flat for several years so they were already not ordering calendars from most vendors
So as one door closed the next week another opened. I was contacted by the largest EU calendar company to license 12 Dragon images for their calendar. The best part about this deal is I don’t have to paint any new Dragons for it.
I will finally be able to paint other subjects that have been on my back burner for nearly a decade such as: Angels, fallen Angels, Gargoyles, The headless Horseman from Sleepy hallow, Vampire and Gothic horror, lots more females and of course fey folks and myths like Griffin and Phoenix.
I am currently finishing up the four horseman of the apocalypse in a unique style for a EU game company ( I can’t mention as of yet) and a few private painting commissions as well. Also a really unique approach introducing a new major painting in the works in the Steampunk genre
My collectors see my work at conventions, on my website www.edbeardjr.com and those who come into my booth will be in for a far more diverse selection of art this year!
I am seriously pumped!
back to the studio!
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