James Wappel Miniature Painting

When I was still in art school, a buddy of mine and I got a tiny dealer's table at a convention in the Congress Hotel in downtown C...

OK, I think this will be close to the Grande Finale on the 2D art.  This is a whole range of stuff, starting with a pastel that I did a...

Along with all the astronomy images, Celtic mythology, fantasy scenes and such, I used to love painting wildlife.  It was a fun change ...

I didn't think that I could find more spacescapes in the archive, but I did! This one was called "Above the Clouds". ...

Just like the Arthurian series, I had been trying to find all the images from the homage to John William Godward, one of the last of th...

After I posted a few of the Arthurian series in the "Why I paint NMM" article, I had been searching far and wide for the othe...

Here's a few more 'old timey' art pieces for you.  There are a few of my favorite spacescapes here, including "Arc of ...

OK folks, this is one of the best ways to describe what life was like before I ever painted miniatures. Back in the day, I used to ...