Wayne McLoughlin
Residence
Current:	New Hampshire[1]
Past:	Wales[2]
Date of Birth
1944
Novels
Warriors Series:	Cover Art: Into The Wild, Fire And Ice, Forest of Secrets, Rising Storm, A Dangerous Path, The Darkest Hour, Midnight, Moonrise, Dawn, Starlight, Twilight, Sunset, The Sight, Dark River, Outcast, Eclipse, Long Shadows, Sunrise, The Fourth Apprentice, Fading Echoes, Night Whispers, Sign of the Moon, Firestar's Quest, SkyClan's Destiny, Bluestar's Prophecy, Crookedstar's Promise Illustrations: Code of the Clans, Cats of the Clans, Secrets of the Clans, Battles of the Clans

Wayne McLoughlin is an illustrator, and has illustrated most of the Warriors books, as well as designing the jackets for some of the books.^[3]

BiographyEdit

Born in Wales in 1944, Wayne McLoughlin developed as early interest in nature. He was an explorer of Hampstead Heath, London, and later of the swamps of northern Florida where he helped out local schools by collecting turtles and lizards.^[4] Due to his interest in art, which devloped at around this same time, he often recorded his experiences in sketches and paintings.^[5]

Wayne served in the USMC in Vietnam, but later completed a dual major at San Diego State University in Fine Art and anthropology. He was hired to photograph tribal life in the South Pacific and in New Guinea for 'Anthropology Today' by CRM Books.^[6]

He later returned to the US after working on television and commercial design overseas. Here he began a career creating illustrated humour parodies for naional magazines. These include: 'Esquire', 'Omni', 'Next' among others.^[7] Alongside this he did work for scientific publishings and institutions such as the National Geographic Society.^[8] He was also commissoned for pieces for campaigns and projects by major corportaions including Adidas, Texaco and Mastercard, some of which became award-winning pieces. His paintings have been included in many books and publications on animals and nature in addition to this.^[9]

More recently he has served as regular contributor to outdoor magazine, 'Sporting Tales'^[10]and in the past twenty years he has contributed to other magazines such as 'Field and Stream' for whom he edited for over a decade and explored humour in sports through both prose and pictures. His vast experience as a hunter, fisher and explorer, and his travels in the United States, Canada and South Pacific - with his wife, Jackie - inspire and inform much of his writing and artwork.^[11]

Art Provided for WarriorsEdit

Cover Art:

• All six books in the Original Arc^[12]
• All six books in the New Prophecy Arc^[13]
• All six books in the Power of Three Arc^[14]
• All six books in the Omen of the Stars Arc^[15]
• All books released up to now in the Super Edition Arc^[16]

Illustrations:

• All illustrations for the books in the Field Guide Arc^[17]

External LinksEdit

• Wayne's personal website is Blue Loon Fine Arts^[18]

References and CitationsEdit