From the moment I first caught a glimpse of Pan’s Labyrinth, many, many months ago, the die was cast. The trailer made me catch my breath and that part of me that still believes was stirred. This was a movie I had to see in the theatre and it simply had to come to our city. Kansas City did not let me down and neither did Guilermo del Toro.
(White Angel by Jason Chan)
On this glorious Tuesday morn come away with me as we visit a variety of sites of which I have recently been made aware.
The first is the blog site of the Art Director for Tor Books, Irene Gallo. Over the years Tor Books has published some of my favorite science fiction and fantasy. As Art Director, Irene Gallo is privileged to work directly with some of the very best book cover artists alive today, many of which have already been featured as Friday Favorites. Her blog features regular mini-interviews with both established and up and coming artists, including examples of their work. It is like Friday Favorites with the artists’ actual participation. Her latest interview was with the artist of the work featured above, Jason Chan. I encourage you to check out his site. One of her recent posts is about digital art vs. art made with traditional media and it is very interesting.
For the second weekend in a row we have had a visit from the Winter Warlock. His gift last weekend was ice, this weekend snow.
Today’s Friday Favorites features a couple of guys whose work I consider as representing the classic style of science fiction art: John Berkey and John Harris. Both have a unique style and yet their paintings evoke a classical feel. Neither artist has a proper website so obtaining quality pictures of their work is a task in an of itself. Hopefully the examples that I have found will give you an idea of how stunning their work can be.
(image by Ryan Heshka, a previous Friday Favorite)
I came across this book meme on Quixotic’s new site which began its life here back in 2005. It went along so well with this month’s theme and looked so fun that I just had to participate.