http://www.metafilter.com/tags/fantasy+painting Posts tagged with 'fantasy' and 'painting' at MetaFilter. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:22:49 -0800 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:22:49 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76565/Preliminary%2Dsketches%2Dof%2DTony%2DBlair%2Dinvariably%2Dhad%2Dthe%2DPM%2Dknocking%2Doff%2Dthe%2Dhead%2Dof%2Da%2Drobot When the House of Commons required <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-561518/Tony-Blair-The-male-prime-minister-painted-official-portrait-tie.html">a portrait of outgoing PM Tony Blair,</a> to whom did they turn? <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/7365582.stm">Phil Hale.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hale">Philip Oliver Hale</a> got his start very young indeed, co-founding with <a href="http://www.rickberrystudio.com/">Rick Berry</a> the Newbury Studio in 1980 at age 16. He took over the paintbrush from <a href="http://www.michaelwhelan.com/">Michael Whelan</a> for Volume II of Stephen King's fantasy saga <a href="http://www.stephenking.com/DarkTower/"><i>The Dark Tower</i></a> in <a href="http://www.thedarktower.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1507">1</a><a href="http://www.thedarktower.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1506">9</a><a href="http://www.thedarktower.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1505">8</a><a href="http://www.thedarktower.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1515">7</a>. (He later revisited <i>The Drawing of the Three</i> with <a href="http://www.thedarktower.com/palaver/showthread.php?t=1105">new illustrations</a> for the <a href="https://secure.grantbooks.com/z-sk-dt-2.html">second edition</a> in 1998.) The twenty-first century has seen Hale's standing improve among critics. In 2001, he published <a href="https://secure.grantbooks.com/z-artists-phil-hale.html"><i>GOAD</i></a> (sadly now out of print). In 2003, he finished a portrait of composer <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp61493&role=art&rNo=0#">Thomas Ad&#0232;s</a> for the <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp">National Portrait Gallery.</a> He had <a href="http://www.mockingbirdsrelaxeder.com/">a 2005 show</a> in London's <a href="http://www.jerwoodspace.co.uk/gal_00.html">Jerwood Space,</a> and 2007 brought him the a commission for new covers for Penguin Classics UK's line of <a href="http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/Search/QuickSearchProc/1,,joseph%20conrad,00.html?id=joseph%20conrad">Joseph Conrad collections.</a> He is represented by <a href="http://www.allenspiegelfinearts.com/hale.html">Allen Spiegel Fine Arts</a> in the US. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76565 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:22:49 -0800 darktower fantasy goad illustration illustrator josephconrad michaelwhelan mockingbirds nationalportraitgallery npg painting philhale portrait portraiture relaxeder rickberry stephenking thedrawingofthethree thomasades tonyblair infinitewindow http://www.metafilter.com/65729/JMW%2DTurner%2DBroadening%2Dthe%2Dlandscape If you <a href="http://www.martiniere.com/imagepages/probability.htm">like</a> <a href="http://www.dusso.com/pages/EP3/sac.html">'fantasy'</a> <a href="http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-49-NASA-ISS007-E-10807-space-sunset-20030721-Pacific-Ocean-large.jpg">art</a> <small>(as <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/bode/lizardoz_lrg.jpg">opposed</a> <a href="http://www.411creatives.com/featured/index.htm">to</a> <a href="http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/dvds/spl01.html">comics</a> :)</small> and you're in DC I'd highly recommend checking out the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMW_Turner">JMW Turner</a> <a href="http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/turnerinfo.shtm">exhibit at the NGA!</a> I know very little (next to nothing) about <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/dido-carthage.jpg">art</a> <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=14758&tabview=image">history</a> but to me he's like <a href="http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/audio/0709ngacon.mp3">the godfather</a> of <a href="http://frankfrazetta.org/">fantasy</a>/<a href="http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/expose/expose_5/grandmaster.php">SF</a> <a href="http://www.michaelwhelan.com/">art</a> (<a href="http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?45806+0+0+gg57">if not</a> <a href="http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?120+0+0+gg57">impressionism</a>); pre-<a href="http://soa.syr.edu/faculty/bcoleman/ARC523/lectures/523.Crystal.Palace.images.html">Crystal Palace</a>.^{<small><a href="http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/courses/previous/ru351/novels/UGMan/ugman.html">1</a></small>} tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65729 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:11:30 -0800 art britain comics culture fantasy history illustration JMWT JMWTurner landscape painting kliuless http://www.metafilter.com/53606/Nivbeds%2Dartwork <a href="http://www.nivbed.com/">Nivbed's artwork</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53606 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:49:51 -0800 art fantasy fineart nivbed painting sketches nthdegx http://www.metafilter.com/48764/Sometimes%2Dyou%2Djust%2Dhave%2Dto%2Dstare%2Dbe%2Dthankful%2Dsomeone%2Dcan%2Dpaint%2Dthis%2Dstuff <a href="http://images.sketchling.com/">Kim Taylor's Online Art Gallery.</a> The <a href="http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/602/forest.jpg">beautiful</a>, <a href="null"><a href="http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/602/ronin1.jpg">mystical</a></a>, and <a href="http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/602/medium/waterhouse.jpg">eerily </a><a href="http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/602/medium/waterhouse.jpg">fantastic </a>artwork of Kim Taylor. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48764 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:25:37 -0800 art artwork fantasy nature painting gagglezoomer