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“Mel Odom’s work is right out of Roman and Greek mythology. His accomplishment is so locked into our memories of Beauties, Beasts, tables that walk on claw-balled feet, and candelabra held up by bodiless hands and arms that extinguish their flames when some dark wind blows.
Ray Bradbury
“Mel Odom’s work is right out of Roman and Greek mythology. His accomplishment is so locked into our memories of Beauties, Beasts, tables that walk on claw-balled feet, and candelabra held up by bodiless hands and arms that extinguish their flames when some dark wind blows.
Ray Bradbury
Red Princess
1980
8-1/2"x11-1/4"
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Owned by Playboy magazine and drawn for an excerpt fromTom Robbins' 'Still Life With Woodpecker".
The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
1983
8-1/2"x11-1/4"
pencil and dyes
Originally done for Playboy magazine
Pubis Angelical
1986
Girl with Blue Poppies
1994
Originally done for "Primavera", novel by Francesca Lia Block
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Lady with Stars
1990
6-1/2"x9-3/4"- uncropped size
Originally done for a Jon Cohen book "Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger", for Warner Books.
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Jennifer
1979
10"x12-1/2"
personal work
Pencil, dyes and gouache with applied sequins
Questions
1986
8-1/2"x11-1/4"
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Done originally for Playboy magazine
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Blue Moves
1984
8-1/2"x11-1/4"
Originally created for Playboy magazine, "Mother's Day".
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane
1993
7-3/8"x10"
Originally created for Playboy magazine
Pencil, dyes and gouache
The Swimmer
1985
8-1/2"x11-1/4"
Originally created for Playboy magazine
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Pink Berries
1980
3-1/8"x6"
Originally done for an Heri Bendel ad.
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Bathsheba
1989
Was originally done for "Bathsheba" by Torgny Lindgren
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Estasia
1992
6-3/4"x7-1/2"
Commissioned for the cover of the book by the same name.
Katy Keene
1984
Pencil
Originally done as part of a tribute to Bill Woggon, creator of Katy Keene
EXIT
Neon Snow
1990
Originally commissioned for the cover of "Stones", a collection of short stories by Timothy Findley.
Bangkok
1993
7-1/4"x10"
Done originally for Playboy magazine for a short story by Dan Simmons name 'Death in Bangkok'.
Spring
1982
12"x15"
Commissioned by David-Blue Artworks as a poster depicting the season Spring. The other three seasons were never drawn.
The New Girlfriend
1985
Originally done for the cover of a collection of Ruth Rendell short stories.
Pencil dyes and gouache
Gossip
1976
9"x11"
This is the second of two drawings done for a 'Viva' magazine feature about Gossip.
The Living and the Dead
1983
3-1/4"x5-1/4"
Done for Viking-Penquin softcover publication of Patrick White's "Living and the Dead".
The Sunken Woman
1981
8-1/2"x11-1/4"
One of two companion drawings originally done for a Joyce Carol Oats short story in Playboy magazine, 'The Sunken Woman'.
Pencil, dyes and gouache
The Sunken Woman #2
1981
8-1/2"x11-1/4"
One of two companion drawings originally done for a Joyce Carol Oats short story in Playboy magazine, The Sunken Woman.
Pencil, dyes and gouache
Country of Desire
1992
5-3/4"x7-1/2"
Was commissioned for the cover of the book "In the Country of Desire" by Leslie Garrett.
Pencil, dyes and gouache
La Gaspi Jacket
1982
9-1/2"x12-1/4"
Larry LaGaspi was a great designer (LaBelle) and friend of mine and I traded him this drawing for a leather 'space suit'.
The Chartreuse Bow
1993
approx.9-1/2"x4-3/4" image on 10"x13" board
One of the 'three sisters'
Made a great tattoo on my friend Josh McKenney
The Hard Heart
1990
approx. 7-1/2"x6-3/4" on 10"x13" board
Was the cover of "I Shudder at Your Touch".
First one of the three sisters.
Poison Pearls
1995
Approx. 7"x7-1/4" image on 10"x13" board
Commissioned for the cover of Dark Love.
Final one of the 'three sisters'
In Flames
1988
- The cover art for "Sleeping in Flame" by Jonathan Carroll.
Leopard Fan (Rayford)
1979
4"x6"
This was originally drawn for a small, unpublished, erotic picture book titled 'Rayford' drawn in 1978.
1984
3-1/8"x5-1/8"
I completed this commissioned cover for Patrick White's "A Fringe of Leaves". He rejected this one among several others I did for him, all terrific.
Pink Lotus
198?
Abstraction
198?- Drawn for a paper company's promotion
1988- Was used by Ashton-Drake as a tiny canvas to accompany a Gene outfit "Smart Set".
East-West
1998
This drawing was done for a then new brand of latex condoms called 'Hevea'.
Eloise
1982
I drew this portrait of my niece Eloise and gave it to my brother and sister-in-law as a gift.
Humming bird
1985
13"x13"
Done for CBS records for an album of music by Salamone de rossi.
