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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Virgil Finlay (update)

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    A recent comment from a reader on a post I did back in 2006 reminded me that I haven’t written for some time about the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator Virgil Finlay. Though he worked in a variety of media, both in color and in black and white, Finlay is noted primarily for…

  • Tomasz Maronski

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    Tomasz Maronski is a Polish fantasy artist who started in traditional media, primarily oil, but after 10 years decided to move to digital painting. Working primarily in Corel Photo-paint, Maronski creates richly textured fantasy landscapes, lush with fantastical forms that seem to take inspiration partly from biological sources and partly from Surrealist masters of textural…

  • Claude Verlinde

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    Claude Verlinde is a French painter who works in the vein of “fantastic realism”, sometimes called “magic realism”, and his work shows the lineage of fantastical art from Bruegel and Bosch to the Surrealists and contemporary magic realists. I would also suspect that a number of the Surrealists, and certainly contemporary magic realists, were influenced…

  • Artists’ portraits of fantasy and science fiction authors on TOR.com

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    Arnie Fenner, co-founder and editor of the Spectrum collections of fantastic art, has written an article for Tor.com titled Lovecraft, Asimov, GRRM, Heinlein & More: Painting SFF Writers in which he collects some portraits of fantasy and science fiction authors by a number of artists. Covering authors in the genre as far as Mark Twain…

  • David Fuhrer

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    David Fuhrer is a Swiss concept artist, illustrator and designer based in Bern. His website showcases a range of his illustration, design and other images, both fanciful personal projects and more practical work for clients. When visiting his site you can choose between Flash or HTML versions, but in either case, open your browser to…

  • Art Out Loud 7

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    Art Out Loud 7 is the latest in a series of group demonstrations by well known illustrators at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Art Out Loud 7 takes place on Saturday, September 24, 2011 from 1 to 5pm. Participating artists for this event are Donato Giancola, Greg Manchess, Rick Berry, Boris Vallejo and…