Please email me at:  ashenvale@hotmail.com

 

 
 

 

All That’s Really Important:

Please call me Ted.  I’m a freelance fantasy, horror, and science-fiction illustrator and cartographer.  I live in Virginia just outside of DC with my astoundingly supportive wife and our fabulous children, who think all dads spend their time either painting naked people or playing D&D.

 

Fall from Grace:

I have been working as a freelance author, illustrator, and cartographer for a decade. Before that, I was a Harvard-Law educated litigation attorney working in DC.  During my ten years of legal practice, I split my time between plaintiff-side civil-rights cases and commercial litigation.  I helped a lot of people but lifted a paint brush only once in a blue moon.  At the end of 2000, at age 36, I became disabled and was forced to leave the law behind.

 

A New Start:

A year after leaving the legal world, I began, to the extent that my disability allowed, to study art seriously at The Art League School in the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia.  I focused all of my energies not devoted to family, or to pain management, into artistic training.  I now paint portraits, figures, still life, and landscapes. My work appears in a museum and numerous private collections, and I have won numerous international and national awards and routinely serve as a judge at professional art competitions and exhibitions.  I joined The Art League School's faculty in 2004 and have taught hundreds of students portrait, figure, and still life painting.

 

Selected Freelance Writing Credits:

Member of the Werecabbage Freelance Creator's Guild

    “On the Fourth Day, We Kill Them All” – Pathfinder PRG adventure, Midgard Tales, Kobold Press, 2013

    “The Ship that Never Was” – Pathfinder RPG adventure, Journeys to the West, Kobold Press, 2012

    “The Accursed Isle of Meshong-Lir” – Pathfinder RPG setting, Journeys to the West, Kobold Press, 2012

    “And Madness Shall Rise to Devour the West” – Call of Cthulhu PRG scenario set in the Arizona Territory in 1887, Red Eye of Azathoth, Kobold Press, 2011

    “Fires of Hatred Defile the Sky” – Call of Cthulhu PRG scenario set in 1487 in Valencia, Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, Red Eye of Azathoth, Kobold Press, 2011

    Origins Award Winner, Best RPG Supplement, Serenity Adventures – Serenity RPG, Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd.  I wrote “Freedom’s Flight”, one of the anthology’s four adventures, and created cartography for the anthology.

     

Fine-Art Resume:

For a complete resume including exhibitions, awards, and other accomplishments, please visit my fine-art website by clicking here.

 

To Those Who Matter Most:

 To my wife and children above all, for love, support, understanding, and more love -- I don't deserve you and, without you, I'd have nothing;

To Mom and Dad, without whom I'd be nothing - I miss you so much!

To my big brother David, for a zillion things, including buying that goofy game when we were kids and forcing me to play;

To Tara, for unwavering friendship, and for endless support and encouragement in all things;

To Hershel, for introducing me to Photoshop, and then for leading me, blind and stumbling, through Dreamweaver, FTP programs, and all manner of arcane technical matters to build this site;

To Charles, for being among the most generous people I know;

To Beth, Charlie, Jeff, Karla, and Stephanie (as well as Charles, Hershel, and Tara), for countless hours of swordplay, magic-wielding, shoot-outs, and friendship;

To Tim Hildebrandt, Wolfgang Baur, and C.J. Henderson, for getting me started;

To Tim Connors, for friendship, support, and keeping my imagination firing;

And to Danni, for mentoring, supporting, beating me up, single-handedly building my fine-art career, and, most of all, for teaching me to paint;

Thank you.