The Emperor & His Shadow | 9x12 Fine Art Print | Limited Edition

About My Fine Art Prints

I print all my fine art prints myself in my studio with a 9 ink giclée quality wide format Epson printer. Each print is individually inspected to assure the highest possible quality, both as an art print and an accurate representation of my original artwork.

Stock will always be low as I only make a few of these prints at a time. Each number is recorded until I reach a total of 25 prints, then a new edition will begin.

Prints consist of an archival matte paper with exceptional detail retention for a museum quality reproduction and lightfast ink for up to 200 years. For longest lasting results, please display this item framed behind glass.

Certificate of Authenticity

These are my own personal reproductions. Each of my fine art prints feature a Certificate of Authenticity or 'Print Plate' adhered to the back with an archival glue. These print plates are hand made themselves, stamped by hand and embossed on an archival parchment tone paper.

The slight variations and imperfections on each Print Plate creates an item that is truly unique and virtually impossible to counterfeit. The title, medium, and specified print number are hand written, and each Print Plate is signed and limited to a total of 25 prints per edition.

From an Unfinished Saga

These are my own original characters from a story I started long ago. Lord Vernack is a man of endless guile and patience. Though his appearance can pass as human, his people are the Eckwhiská, a race of shadow shifters closely related to Elves. Vernack possesses the ability to change his form from man to creature, or even multiple creatures if the need arises. However, any form he takes appears eerily insubstantial, as if it could melt into shadow and become nothing at all.

As the main antagonist, Vernack prefers to wield the power of his clever mind over physical strength and magic, though he does not lack for either. He has spent more than 300 years infiltrating the mortal realm of Aneurick, carefully pitting kingdoms against one another while usurping power and wealth from all of them. The constant war serves as a cover for his true ambition. He seeks a relic from an empire he previously destroyed.

Wherever he goes his mysterious servant follows, pale as ivory and black as pitch. She stands in the shadow of her master, rarely seen, never heard, yet ever ominously present.

"Here in the candlelight he still possessed a cold beauty, with high carved cheek bones, an ageless brow, and a straight down-turned nose. This was but a memory, a fragment of the man he once was. The same flickering light that danced across his golden cup and in the multitudinous rubies of the brooch pinned at his throat, also reflected in the two dark mirrors of his eyes, but only there did that light seem dead."

— Samantha Johnson