Boris
Vallejo and Julie Bell
Boris
Vallejo and Julie Bell Website
Boris Vallejo (born
1941-01-08 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian painter.
He emigrated to the United States in 1964,
and currently resides in Allentown in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania.
He frequently works with his wife, painter and model
Julie Bell.
Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres.
His hyper-representational paintings have graced the covers of dozens
of science fiction paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling
glossy calendars.
Subjects of his paintings are typically gods, monsters,
and well-muscled male and female barbarians engaged in battle.
Some of his male figures were modeled by Vallejo himself,
and many of his later female characters were modeled by his wife.
His latest works still retain heavy fantasy elements,
but lean more towards the erotic rather than pure fantasy themes.
Vallejo is married to fellow artist Julie Bell,
whose artistic style is very similar to Vallejo's.
He has two children from a previous marriage to artist and writer Doris Vallejo.
His son, Dorian Vallejo, also has produced work in the fantasy genre.
His daughter, Maya Vallejo, is a professional photographer.
Julie
Bell
Julie
Bell (born 1958 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American painter.
A fantasy artist, she is a former bodybuilder and fantasy model for her husband,
painter Boris Vallejo.
One of her most famous and recognized artwork is Lilandra,
which has been used as the cover for 'The Julie Bell Portfolio' and reprinted
in several of her books.
She and her husband have also done many fantasy paintings of Marvel Comics
characters, often in battle.
The artwork is widely available for viewing across the internet and even file-sharing
networks.
She also designed the cover art for Meat Loaf's album
Bat out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose and its first single "It's
All Coming Back to Me Now".
Bell and Vallejo reside in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
She has two sons, Anthony Palumbo and David Palumbo, both of whom are also
professional painters.
Luis
Royo
Luis Royo Website
Luis Royo (born in 1954 in Olalla, Spain) is a Spanish artist,
known for his darkly sensual paintings of women and mechanical life forms.
He has also recently started doing sculptures of some of his earlier art.
He was born in Olalla, a small town near Teruel, Spain.
He has produced many paintings for his own books/exhibitions,
and has also produced art for various other media: videogames,
CD album covers, comic book covers, and Tarot cards.
He is most famous for his work doing illustrations of Julie Strain
for the animated movie Heavy Metal
Concentrating
increasingly on his personal work,
his best illustrations of women would be reproduced by Fournier
in a pack of poker cards.
In 2002, Luis Royo revealed some of his secrets in CONCEPTIONS
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a book which describes the creative process and presents a collection
of the artist's sketches and pencil drawings,
allowing us to enjoy the character studies,
the conception of the illustrations and the numerous alternatives
which Royo considers before carrying out the definitive work.
Luis Royo moved
to Barcelona,
where he found a corner bursting with beauty
in the Gothic Quarter, in which to create his work.
This change in residence also meant a change in the way he worked,
in his vision of his work and a desire to return to painting on canvas,
to move towards more personal work which would once again surprise the reader.
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'Under
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