Illustrator: Boris Vallejo
Text: Boris Vallejo Size (hb): 11.2 x 8.8 ins Size (pb): 11 x 8.2 ins Published: December 1984 |
Cover: A composite image |
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In this book Boris describes the techniques he uses when painting. It would probably be of enormous interest and help to someone with artistic talent, but to the majority of us it provides a great selection of his pictures in a large format. There are examples of sketches and the image that resulted, the reference photograph used for the final painting, and photographs of works in several stages of progress.
I am not including every sketch and line drawing, nor the photographs. My purpose here is to indicate the paintings which you will get if you buy the book but I have also included a few additional drawings that may be of interest. The numbers are the page numbers in the book. Where a title is followed by a second title in parentheses, the first is the title given in this book, the second the title referenced elsewhere, usually a majority vote.
Geert Damhoff, of the Netherlands, has a book of the same title, in this case a 1996 reprint edition published by Fireside, ISBN 068481904X, which differs from my edition in that the image on page 71 is Sagittarius, the Archer.
Geert has also identified the components of the composite image as two of the lasses from Barbarian Queens, the green monster from page 7, and parts of The Executioner and Iron Warrior, with the Master's Hand from a picture illustrating the rendering of Chrome Robot.
005 Title Page (Alone) |
007 Contents (Green Dragon) |
010 Siren Song |
013 Bursting Out |
014 Dragon Tattoo - detail (Tattoo) |
015 Counterfeit Lover |
016 Centaurs - prelim |
017 Vampire (She Vampire) |
018 Isaac Asimov - prelim |
021 Lavalite World | 022 Web | 024 The Micronauts |
025 Molly Hatchet | 026 Full Moon | 029 In the Moons of Borea |
031 White Magic | 032 Busch Gardens | 033 Tree of Death |
034 Colossus | 035 Lord of the Wolves | 036 The Red Terrors |
037 The Mountain Beast | 038 Sword Fight | 039 Android |
040 Primeval Princess | 043 At the End of the World | 045 Nubians |
046 Of Men and Monsters | 047 The Last Battle | 048 Iron Warrior |
051 Football Hero | 052 Talisman | 055 Games |
057 Gryphon's Eerie | 058 The Victorious - prelim | 061 The Victorious |
062 Never Say Never Again - prelim | 065 NJ Bodybuilding Championships sketch | 067 The Dragon 1992 - prelim |
067 unknown design | 071 Scarecrow Angel | 072 Executioner - prelim |
073 Executioner | 074 The Magnificent - prelim | 075 The Magnificent |
076 Barbarian Queens - prelim | 077 Barbarian Queens | 078 Dragon's Birth |
080 National Lampoon's European Vacation - prelim 1 | 081 National Lampoon's European Vacation - prelim 2 | 083 National Lampoon's European Vacation - prelim 3 |
085 Vacation (National Lampoon's European Vacation) |
087 King's Daughter |
089 Broken Sword |
091 Sorceress | 093 Red Amazon | 094 Invictus |
096 Wilderness | 097 Eternal Champion | 098 Mercenary |
099 Adventurer | 100 Flying Menace | 101 Space guardian |
102 Ice Schooner | 103 Witch and her Familiar | 104 Heavy Metal - prelim |
111 Heavy Metal | 115 Female Wrestlers | 121 Chrome Robot |
122 Corkscrew | 124 Bar Girl | 124 Bed Death |
125 Hatchett | 125 Ape's Land |