A beautiful girl with a wildly decadent headress, graceful Illustration from Micheal Whelan – a tag search on flickr confirms it’s a drag queens favourite! – check Flickr for the “The Snow Queen”
Micheal Whelan’s an American artist (born 1949) who specialises in Sci-Fi and Fantasy art, his art appearing on over 350 books and magazine covers… check out more on him him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Whelan
A book cover designed by the late Scottish Italian Artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005) . Starting out working with collage’s of found object Paolozzi came to public attention in the 1960′s producing striking Screen Prints, and he also worked as a Sculptor. Paolozzi’s work is akin to the Pop Art movement of the time, although he described his work as Surrealist.
Read more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzi He’s one of my favourite artist’s s I’ll be posting more up soon…
Dentro de mucho tiempo (In a long time) 1961
A real sense of drama and scale; two excellent examples of a block/screen print from a pre-moonshot children’s book nearly 50 years old!
Source: http://flickr.com/photos/elestratografico/ << lots of retro Spanish/Latin America Prints.
Book cover art for the Spanish edition Fritz Leiber’s novel “La Mente Arana” (The Mind Spider) Artist Salinas Blanch. Airbrushed Neon colours on black works really nicely, this is the kinda thing it’s possible to do these days using Abobe Illustrator, specifically the Gradient Mesh and Blending tool – maybe with a splash of Gaussian Blur to!
Sinister cover Art for a later edition of John Wyndham’s 1968 novel “Chocky” art by British Illustrator Mark Salwowski.