Hyperborea 11,000 BCE

CLIENT: Then-future Executive VP Konazawa at Toshiba at one of his residences in Kobe, Japan.

AGENT: My late Uncle Norris Joseph McDonald was a young mid-level engineering manager at Toshiba's Southern California plant at the time.

AGENT: Ken ("Kenji San") Wehage of Riverside California and Tokyo, Japan.

MODELS: A Pleistocene epoch Coelodonta antiquitatis Woolly Rhinoceros and a Caucasus Barbarian.

SKETCH SETTING: Post-Diluvian Europe prior to the dawn of recorded history in a lost realm circa 4000 to 6000 BCE.

RENDER LOCATION: TOPGUN United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, at Naval Air Station Miramar, California.

PROJECT TRIVIA: Nine years later, we would attempt business again with the assistance of Japanese American agent Ken Wehage resulting in contracts signed on a major art deal before Konazawa San and his assistant Kura San ("The Bear") were killed in the great Kobe Earthquake--otherwise known as the The Great Hanshin earthquake (阪神・淡路大震災, Hanshin Awaji daishinsai) on January 17, 1995 at 05:46:53 JST which was (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC).

I'm not sure what George R.R. Martin was doing "A Song of Ice and Fire"-wise in 1986, but Antediluvian medievalism was definitely a subject I loved and was messing with in 1986.

This drawing was started at the hanger for VMFA-314 at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station was finished at the hanger for the then-Naval Air Station Miramar at the Top Gun Fighter Weapons Training School on the very week that the "Top Gun" movie starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis came out.

Boy was the party on on the night of 15 May 1986 in La Jolla, California.