CROM: Watcher at the Edge is an original small-format painting depicting Crom the Barbarian in a moment of quiet vigilance rather than action. Created on a 6 × 6 inch wood panel board, the piece was executed using a variety of paint brush markers, allowing for sharp line control, layered color, and raw texture.
The compact scale emphasizes immediacy and intimacy, drawing the viewer close to Crom’s presence. Brush marker strokes create a balance between graphic boldness and painterly spontaneity, giving the image a hand-made, tactile quality that reflects Crom’s savage and mythic nature.
This work was exhibited in December 2025 as part of the Big Little Art Show at the Talleyville Frame Shoppe (Wilmington, DE), a show dedicated to small-scale works that reward close inspection. Though modest in size, the painting captures Crom as an enduring icon of pulp sword & sorcery—silent, resolute, and shaped by unseen trials beyond the frame.
The piece stands as both a standalone character study and a fragment of a larger mythos, inviting the viewer to imagine the world that surrounds Crom just outside the edges of the panel.
CROM: Watcher at the Edge is an original small-format painting depicting Crom the Barbarian in a moment of quiet vigilance rather than action. Created on a 6 × 6 inch wood panel board, the piece was executed using a variety of paint brush markers, allowing for sharp line control, layered color, and raw texture.
The compact scale emphasizes immediacy and intimacy, drawing the viewer close to Crom’s presence. Brush marker strokes create a balance between graphic boldness and painterly spontaneity, giving the image a hand-made, tactile quality that reflects Crom’s savage and mythic nature.
This work was exhibited in December 2025 as part of the Big Little Art Show at the Talleyville Frame Shoppe (Wilmington, DE), a show dedicated to small-scale works that reward close inspection. Though modest in size, the painting captures Crom as an enduring icon of pulp sword & sorcery—silent, resolute, and shaped by unseen trials beyond the frame.
The piece stands as both a standalone character study and a fragment of a larger mythos, inviting the viewer to imagine the world that surrounds Crom just outside the edges of the panel.
