Welcome

Thank you for visiting the official website for science fiction and fantasy illustrator David Lee Anderson. I hope you enjoy the galleries of art and will consider giving me feedback on the paintings you see here. I started showing art at science fiction conventions in July 1980 and have met many wonderful fans, artists, writers, editors and publishers over the years. My work has been published nationally and internationally since 1985 and has been purchased by hundreds of art collectors from around the country. I am thankful for you visiting my site, and hope that you enjoy the artwork.

News

My most exciting news from late last year was that I went to Florida to see the STS-120 space shuttle launch on October 23, 2007. As a lifetime space enthusiast you couldn't believe how exciting it is to witness an actual launch. My wife Carolyn and I went to visit my mother, who lives southwest of Orlando, about fifty miles from Cape Kennedy. We went to the Kennedy Space Center complex and watched the launch at 11:38 AM from about six miles away. We were lucky that the launch was on time, because the launches before and after were delayed. The ground shook as the shuttle lifted off, even from that far away, and I took sequential pictures of the launch as it progressed. The crowd of space fans were as delighted as if they were watching their team score, applauding and cheering as the shuttle flew into the stratosphere. There is not a comparable experience that can be described. You have pride in your country and faith in the many scientists, engineers and astronauts that can accomplish such an awesome feat.

Be sure to take advantage of the prints and originals I have for sale online using PayPal. If there is a piece you are interested in that does not have a price listed, be sure to email me your request. I send art to many convention art shows as well, listing many of those conventions on the Resources page.

I also accept commissions for science fiction or fantasy ideas that you would like to have realized. You may have an idea for a customized space art piece, or a gaming character that you would like to have illustrated. I have done portraits of individuals in science fiction or fantasy settings. I've painted space art concepts many times for individual collectors, some which are shown in the space art gallery.

Please check out my covers for ALMOST HUMAN by Gary Moreau, ALL THE MARBLES by Dusty Rainbolt and OF STARS AND SHADOWS by Mark W. Tiedemann at Yard Dog Press (www.yarddogpress.com). You can purchase the books from them online. You will also find BUBBAS OF THE APOCALYPSE, edited by Selina Rosen, and FOUR BUBBAS OF THE APOCALYPSE, both including stories by my website designer Robert D. Brown. The third anthology is INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF BUBBAS, and the fourth one, released last year, is called HOUSTON: WE HAVE BUBBAS! I wrote a story for the collection FLUSH FICTION: VOLUME 1 called "Thoughts While Bleeding to Death". It's a book of short-short stories by many of the Yard Dog authors, and they are funny, weird and out-of-this-world. That does describe Yard Dog authors and artists pretty well.