This design by Richard H. Fay features a heraldic lion rampant azure, a blue lion depicted in profile rearing up on its hind legs, ready to stave off all attackers.
Sci-fi melds with medieval Celtic in this design of neon green aliens entwined in a Celtic-style knot.
This work appeared, as black and white filler artwork, in STAR*LINE, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2013.
With a lamb in its fanged maw, the legendary Lambton Worm of north-east England winds itself three times around a hill in this original illustration by Richard H. Fay.
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dragon, worm, wurm, fantasy, fantasy artwork
In this weird and rather surreal sci-fi artwork by Richard H. Fay, two glowing human figures (one male, one female) slide through a strange swirling dimension populated by both cone-shaped and jellyfish-like alien creatures.
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alien creatures, aliens, another dimension, science fiction, scifi
A red-haired Earthling girl and two of her alien friends, one tentacled and rather blobby, the other rather furry and with reversed forelimb joints, get all wet while visiting the pool of the water-spitting piptrixons, alien creatures sort of like giant blue-coloured pipefish. This fun sci-fi artwork by Richard H. Fay originally appeared on the cover of the July 2019 issue of SPACEPORTS & SPIDERSILK.
With yellowish skin, protruding veins, blackish lips, and glowing yellow eyes, Frankenstein's monster appears in all his ghoulish glory in this rather book-accurate portrait by Richard H. Fay.
With nose bent out of shape and mouth formed into a grimace, an angry cartoon figure of a man fumes while his limbs quiver with rage in this absurd artwork by Richard H. Fay.
This work represents an artist's ultimate response to critics of his art — a ridiculously-but-boldly coloured cartoon self-portrait of the artist laughing along with "Ha, Ha" appearing on an abstract background, just to emphasise the laughable absurdity of it all.
The elusive man-ape known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch, that most famous of cryptozoological beasts (aka cryptids), glares in this portrait drawn by Richard H. Fay.
Card-like tiles featuring stars and the phases of the moon representing time fall through an open hole in this abstract/surreal artwork by Richard H. Fay.
Santa Claus (or Father Christmas, if you prefer) looks jolly with a sprig of holly in his fur hat in this original Christmas illustration by Richard H. Fay.
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christmas, holly, jolly, kris kringle, saint nicholas
In a spooky forest clearing, beneath text declaring "Happy Halloween", two youngling witches conjure up more than they bargained for when casting a spell in a large cauldron. This fun fantasy/Halloween artwork by Richard H. Fay originally appeared, in black and white, as an interior illustration in the October 2020 issue of SPACEPORTS & SPIDERSILK.
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autumn, fall, fantasy, fantasy artwork, fantasy illustration
In a spooky forest clearing, two youngling witches conjure up more than they bargained for when casting a spell in a large cauldron. This fun fantasy/Halloween artwork by Richard H. Fay originally appeared, in black and white, as an interior illustration in the October 2020 issue of SPACEPORTS & SPIDERSILK.
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autumn, fall, fantasy, fantasy artwork, fantasy illustration
A black triangle divided into segments, a black trapezoidal band divided into two, a red circle, a yellow rectangle, a pale red square, a purplish circle, and an orange square feature in this abstract art of overlapping shapes by Richard H. Fay.
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shapes, squares, circles, triangle, shapes and colors
In this original illustration by Richard H. Fay, a mean-looking cartoon rat smokes a ciggie while wearing a dirty T-shirt that declares, in sickly yellow letters, "Rats Rule".
Furry otherworldly creatures standing out on the snowy plain of a wintry alien world spy a flying saucer zip across a star-filled sky in this original sci-fi illustration by Richard H. Fay.
A serpentine jungun catches an armored quibbib in this sci-fi artwork by Richard H. Fay. This piece originally appeared as black and white filler art in DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES 94, January 2013.
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alien creatures, monsters, sci fi art, science fiction, alien
On a moonlit night, a cadaverous vampire peers through a window and scratches at the window frame desiring to gain entry to drink your blood. This horror artwork originally appeared in NIGHT TO DAWN 27, April 2015.
This German eagle design by Richard H. Fay melds the modern and the medieval. It was inspired by both the modern federal eagle and various medieval heraldic eagles.
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black eagle, eagle, german, heraldic, heraldry
Two human figures are confronted by a multi-eyed tentacled monstrosity rising from a dark ooze in this weird artwork by Richard H. Fay. This piece originally appeared in STAR*LINE, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2013.
The red rose was a badge of the House of Lancaster during the 15th century Wars of the Roses. This original illustration by Richard H. Fay is based on various medieval-period heraldic roses.
The white rose was one of several devices to appear on Yorkist badges and banners. This original illustration by Richard H. Fay is based on various medieval-period heraldic roses.