The scene
From Dune by Frank Herbert (1965), Book Two. Hunted, with nowhere left to run, Paul takes the controls of a small winged flying machine and heads straight into a great sandstorm, because it is the one place no one will follow. I love that choice. This is an inspired-by print: nothing in it is taken from any film.
The style
I wanted the storm to be the whole picture, so I gave it the look of a late-Victorian storm watercolour: wet washes, granulation, blooms and bare paper, the sun drowning behind the sand. Somewhere in there is one tiny flying machine, no bigger than a mosquito.
The inspiration
The look comes from Winslow Homer's watercolour "Hurricane, Bahamas" (1898), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I borrowed only his fast, wet handling of a storm. His palms, roofs and sea aren't here.
How it's made
I design each scene and refine it until it feels right. It's a print of a digital artwork made in the style of a watercolour, not a hand-painted watercolour or an original. A typeset caption under the picture names the book, the moment and the style that inspired it. Each one carries my printed "Chapter & Scene" signature in the margin.