Artists Who Bring the Visions Into Reality

Posted by Cyn


I can­not draw rec­og­niz­able stick fig­ures, so I’m com­pletely in awe of peo­ple who can make some­thing wholly imag­i­nary look utterly believ­able. There are so many mar­velous artists work­ing with fan­tas­tic images — some based on char­ac­ters from sto­ries or myths, some doing com­pletely orig­i­nal work.

I hope to have one of Carl Lundgren’s prints some­time soon. I love Impu­dence, and would be tick­led to hang No Shirt, No Shoes, No Ser­vice in my kitchen. Katie’s father and I ran across his work at a Ren­nais­sance Fes­ti­val many years ago — around 1989? — and as soon as I found it I got a copy of his book, Great Artist.
I met him at Dragon Con sev­eral years back, and he kindly signed the book for me. Unfor­tu­nately, the book was severely water-​​damaged dur­ing a move (it’s been sev­eral years now and I’m still upset over it).

I’ve put out the word at every store I’ve seen car­ry­ing Susan Sed­don Boulet’s work that I want a poster of her paint­ing of Bast, but I’m start­ing to think that par­tic­u­lar one isn’t avail­able as a poster. I might have to buy a sec­ond copy of The God­dess Paint­ings, cut out the color plate and frame that.

Elfwood

Katie and I met Susan Van Camp in the dealer room at Dragon Con sev­eral years ago. We fell in love with her winged kit­ties — and, in fact, found that a t-​​shirt Katie already had fea­tured one of Ms. Van Camp’s designs. We have sev­eral of her prints now and would love to have the rest of the winged cat series.

I have two prints from Lucy Synk’s “Shelf of…” series, and want the third.

I have a cou­ple of small Ran­dall Span­gler pieces and would hap­pily dis­play just about any­thing he’s done in my home. I really love the mis­chevi­ous lit­tle dragons.

Before I ran across Boulet’s cal­en­dars, I used to get
Boris Vallejo’s Mythol­ogy cal­en­dars each year. They’re beau­ti­ful! I had to laugh, though, when sev­eral vis­i­tors to our home assumed that because many of the women in Vallejo’s work are scant­ily (if at all) clad, the cal­en­dars must have belonged to my hus­band, and asked if I didn’t mind them hang­ing in our home office!

Any book with a Larry Elmore cover tends to catch my eye — and for some rea­son, I tend to like most of the authors for whom he’s done covers.

Michael Whe­lan is prob­a­bly one of the best-​​known of artists doing SF&F cov­ers. His fine art work is even more impres­sive, though.

Sam gave me one of M. Peña’s lovely flap cat fig­urines as a gift recently, and I love it. Of course, now I want more of them!

Links to SF&F Art Sites

Last updated July 10, 2003

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