Painting horses is far more difficult that painting dragons, I can assure so. Nobody can claim that the dragon should have been there or that. This American cover obliged me to make a dark horse face forwards, but I liked the results.

I feel an special affection for this cover because I enjoyed a lot when drawing and painting it, from the first moment. I even believe that such enjoyment, such state of mind, can be felt when watching the picture: the spontaneity, the decision when applying colour, ...

The topic here was an avalanche of huge rocks over the railway track. These rocks really appear in the published book cover, but I was cautious enough to paint the rocks apart and stick them on the original artwork with adhesive tape so that I could have it transformed afterwards into an illustration.