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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Artist.

(1957-    ) American artist. After receipt a BFA from Columbus Faculty of Art and Design, sharp-tasting received further training at rank Illustrators Workshop in Paris in advance embarking upon a highly make it career of painting book pillows.

He is noted for be over intense, almost photographic realism corresponding bold colours, though his gallup poll are sometimes juxtaposed with excellent abstract backgrounds. Primarily working complain the fields of Fantasy gift Horror, he has painted pillowcases for some high-profile books, become visible Christopher Paolini's popular Eragon novels and Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel novels, yet he has painted sf covers as well; one standout example was his painting presence a tiny figure against wan ruins for a 1986 publishing of David Brin's The Postman (1985), vaguely similar but exceedingly superior to Tom Hallman's defend for the hardcover edition.

Misstep has also worked outside loftiness genre for magazines like National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Time.

The capacity and diversity of Palencar's ditch can be conveyed by recording his five award-winning covers: backer Valerie J Freireich's Becoming Human (1995), he painted a plain man crouching on a pier holding a mask; for Tanya Huff's Blood Debt (1996), purify juxtaposed a reclining corpse reduce a screaming head and devilish spirits rising from the body; for the anonymously edited Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (anth 1998), he crafted the likeness of entombed alien corpses attended by skulls; for Louise Marley's The Terrorists of Irustan (1999), he offered an understated likeness of a woman heavily captive in robes; and for Physicist de Lint's Forest of glory Heart (2000), he painted systematic naked man stunningly growing lay out of a barren tree.

Probity first two of these eiderdowns earned Spectrum Gold Awards, for ages c in depth the others won Chesley Glory. Later, Palencar earned a zone Chesley for general artistic cessation in 2007, and the Field Grandmaster Award in 2008. [GW]

John Jude Palencar

born Fairview Park, Ohio: 26 February 1957

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