Archive for the Artist News Category
Isabel by Bob Venosa
ROBERT VENOSA January 21, 1936 to August 9, 2011
We thought we’d choose this one by Bob Venosa as picture of the month since Bob Venosa finally lost his battle against cancer recently having confounded the doctor’s for eight years by defying their “you’ve only got a couple of months to live Mr Venosa” predictions and carrying on for eight years. Bob Venosa, inspired by Dali to a large extent, was a great painter. Bob Venosa’s wife said, “The great Venosa left his body on Tuesday August 9, 2011 at 6:56 PM.” Robert Venosa’s famous works of visionary art paintings inspired countless artists. To see more, click here.
Night and Her Train of Stars by Alexandra Dawe
You’ll get a chance to meet artist Alexandra Dawe if you go to the Samhain Avalon Faery Ball on 29th & 30th October 2011 in Glastonbury. If you are not yet familiar with Alexandra Dawe’s fabulous art then click here. For more info on the Samhain Avalon Faery Ball then click here.
Major art talent Todd Lockwood, famous for his depiction of Drizzt and the worlds of Salvatore’s books, will be at a number of events over the summer so if you are in the USA over the summer or in Italy in the autumn you might want to put these dates in your diary and get to meet one of the greatest modern artists around:
Demonstone by Todd Lockwood for the R.A.Salvatore book cover
War of Angels by Todd Lockwood
Soujourn by Todd Lockwood for the Salvatore Drizzt book cover
Space art by Andrew Stewart
It is time to meet Andrew Stewart, probably the most spaced-out artist on the planet this side of Chris Foss. With many covers for Astronomy books and magazines under his belt as well as covers for such famous authors as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking he is certainly a quantum force to be reckoned with.
Andrew Stewart is a self taught freelance artist based in Nottingham in England. He says he has always been into astronomy, fantasy and science fiction with influences ranging from Salvador Dali to HR Giger. Andrew Stewart always hoped to meet Carl Sagan but sadly he died before that was possible. Carl Sagan’s widow was however so impressed with his artwork that she asked him to do the cover for Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Connection that was only ready to be published after his death. He works mainly with airbrush preferring to use acrylic inks and liquitex paint since this gives a better performance when working with an airbrush (usually a paasch v/vv, vjb or DeVilbliss lightweight gravity feed spray gun). In these days of vast amounts of computer-generated images it is great to see such monolithic painting being done with an airbrush and I’m sure that you’ll agree that the result leaves a lot of computer-generated art back at the starting gate. To take a trawl through the fabulously spaced-out world of Andrew Stewart just click here.
CATERPILLAR'S MUSHROOM by Brian Froud (Ltd).