Next to my brother's writings my very best author is H.G. Wells. I've read most of his classics and was inspired to do this painting a few years ago. I included the film adaptations represented in the painting instead of my own. It's one of my personal favorites in my collection.
I illustrated Wells during three different times of his life, first in 1896, second in the middle teens of the nineteen hundreds then finally in nineteen thirty-four (or at least I think that was the date?) when he was doing his radio shows. And I chose my three favorite stories to be depicted in the painting, "The Time Machine" (my number one favorite), "The War of the Worlds" and "The First Men in the Moon" I learned quite a bit about the writer during my research for the painting. On another note.....my brother, Tony also at http://www.timeworkstudios.com listed in the writers section is another person fascinated with time travel. Most of his stories revolve around the concept.

—John Collado