Creatures by Michael Whelan

Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism, formerly working for over 30 years as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy before devoting all his work to a fine art career.



His art has appeared on over 350 book and magazine covers, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, many of Robert A. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series. Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King's The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower, the first and last of his Dark Tower books.

Whelan's work can also be seen on the cover of The Jacksons' Victory album, Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D. and Roots albums, Soulfly's Dark Ages, Obituary's Cause of Death, and every album by Elric-influenced metal band Cirith Ungol. He also provided original paintings for the covers of Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell and The Very Best of Meat Loaf albums and provided several of his older paintings for the inner booklet of the former. Whelan recently painted the cover art for thrash metal band Evile's album Infected Nations.

Since the mid-1990s he has pursued a career as a gallery artist, selling his non-commissioned paintings in galleries in the United States as well as privately through his Web site. In addition to his fine art work, Whelan has continued to receive awards for his illustrations. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in June 2009.

Alex Stevenson Diaz

Alex Stevenson es un artista con querencia por lo humano, que comunica a través de expresivas poses la lucha interior del hombre consigo mismo, sus anhelos de libertad, sus prisiones y ataduras. Las anatomías que representa, expresan la dureza en un miguelangelesco barroquismo. La tensión de sus manos y dedos o la rigidez de los músculos del cuello, en cabezas vueltas hacia atrás, dejan paso a una energía que sale del adentro más visceral. Como si de sueños se trataran, juega con los símbolos; ícaros de quien quiere alzarse en un espacio sin limitaciones ni ataduras, mujeres que conservan toques de su femineidad, pero paradójicamente también presas de esta, frutas sabrosas que encierran dentro de si una promesa y que sólo engañan a quien las prueba. La frustración está siempre presente, es el signo de la condición humana, seguir adelante por la fuerza interior de la vida, pero que corre el riesgo de ver truncadas las esperanzas. - Alex Stevenson Diaz

Araujo Santoyo

1994 - 1996 Especialización en Pintura y Técnicas Pictóricas
Académie Royale des Beaux Arts
Bruselas – Bélgica
1994 – 1996 Disección Anatómica
Höpital Erasme, U.L.B.
Bruselas – Bélgica
1989 – 1991 Escultura (maïtre Jean Marie Matteau)
Académie Royale des Beaux Arts
Bruselas – Bélgica
1988 – 1989 Escultura (Maïtre Lucie Sentjens)
Académie des Beaux Arts d'Ixelles
Bruselas – Bélgica
1987 – 1988 Cerámica (Mäitre Mirko Orlandini)
Académie des Beaux Arts d'Ixelles
Bruselas – Bélgica
1987 – 1991 Secundaire Supérieur en Beaux Arts
Académie Royale des Beaux Arts
Bruselas – Bélgica
1980 – 1986 Taller de dibujo y pintura
Pilar Santoyo
Bogotá
1982 – 1986 Taller de Escultura
Alicia Tafurt
Bogotá
1984 – 1986 Primaria y secundaria
Liceo de Cervantes
Bogotá



2007 – 2008 Director docente y director de carrera
Academia Fábula, Bogotá

2001 – 2008 Profesor de dibujo y pintura avanzadas, de escultura, técnicas pictóricas, anatomía artística y figura humana

Diseñador gráfico, diseño web
Academia Fábula, Bogotá

2000 – 2004 Curador Galería Fábula, Bogotá

2000 – 2001 Editor de arte, Revista Fábula, Bogotá

 

Vladislav Kravchuk

 Vladislav Kravchuk was born in Dubna Russia, approximately 75 miles north of Moscow. He graduated from Venecianov Art Lyceum and followed it up studying and graduating from Moscow's Stroganov Art University. Since 1995, Vladislav has taken part in many exhibitions within Russia and abroad. Vladislav's paintings can be found within galleries and private collections in Russia, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Poland and Slovakia.
Vladislav's subjects are often floral, landscapes and cityscapes and occasional seascapes all of which are compatible with his style of painting with a painting knife versus a brush.