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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Wayne Barlowe

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Wayne Barlowe (-1958)  is a world-renowned science fiction and fantasy author and artist who has created images for books, film and galleries and written novels, screenplays and a number of art books.Barlowe is best known for realistic paintings of surreal alien life, hellish landscapes, and esoteric landscapes,  as well as paleoart.He has painted over 300 books, magazine covers and illustrations for many major book publishers, as well as Life and Time Magazine.Barlowe has also created concept art and creature design for films such as Avatar, Harry Potter, Hellboy, and Pacific Rim. His first solo work, Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials, appeared in 1979. It was filled with 150 full-color paintings depicting fifty of the most famous aliens of science fiction literature.His artwork is often done in acrylics, although he is also well known for his pencil sketches.  Barlowe has a talent for creating believable surface textures, important in creating everything from aliens to space heroes.His art spans alien worlds, alien creatures, and the realms of hell. His work portrays his imagination in painstaking detail. 

More of Wayne Barlowe’s amazing artworks can be found at https://waynebarlowe.com/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Otherworld

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Otherworld: a world beyond death or beyond present reality

In this small series, I tried to find original artwork with the word “Otherworld” in the title. I did not want to include art that “depicted” other worlds, as that is too wide a territory for this blog. I also tried to avoid digital art, as that is a world of art unto its own as well.

Enjoy!

 

Otherworld — Arpita Gaidhane

 

Other World II, MC Escher

 

Into the Otherworld — Ricardo Herrera

 

Otherworld — Andrew Wyeth

 

Otherworld — Cascail

 

Otherworld Signpost — Cameron Limbrick

 

The Otherworld Immersive Exhibit, Philadelphia

 

The otherworld — Jennifer Farina

 

Tropical Otherworld — Joseph Feely

 

Otherworld — Ivan Pavlenko

 

The Otherworld — James Llewellyn

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Boris Vallejo

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Considered to be one of the masters of modern fantasy illustration, Boris Vallejo was born in Lima, Peru on January 8, 1941.Vallejo began painting at the age of 13, and obtained his first illustration job three years later at the age of 16.He attended the Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes on a five-year scholarship.After emigrating to the United States in 1964, he quickly garnered a fan following from his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and various other fantasy characters (often done for paperback-fiction works featuring the characters).This led to commissions for movie-poster illustration, advertisement illustration, and artwork for various collectibles.Along with his wife and collaborator (and often model) Julie Bell, Vallejo has done a great volume of work for the Fantasy field, having worked for virtually every major publishing house with a science fiction/fantasy line.His classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to anyone contemporaneously working in the Fantasy genre.Whether the work features sword and sorcery, space travel, pulp heroes, or imaginative creatures, his paintings are often tinged with eroticism.For sheer dauntless bravura, few have ever pushed the limits as does Boris with his beautiful maidens and fearsome monsters.More of Boris Vallejo‘s amazing drawings can be found at https://www.borisjulie.com/.