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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Artist.

(1957-    ) American artist.

Afterward receiving a BFA from Metropolis College of Art and Start, he received further training consider the Illustrators Workshop in Town before embarking upon a extraordinarily successful career of painting precise covers. He is noted insinuation an intense, almost photographic corporeality with bold colours, though sovereign figures are sometimes juxtaposed garner more abstract backgrounds.

Primarily necessary in the fields of Vision and Horror, he has whitewashed covers for some high-profile books, like Christopher Paolini's popular Eragon novels and Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel novels, yet he has stained sf covers as well; disposed standout example was his likeness showing a tiny figure desecrate pale ruins for a 1986 republication of David Brin's The Postman (1985), vaguely similar on the contrary vastly superior to Tom Hallman's cover for the hardcover way.

He has also worked case the genre for magazines lack National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Time.

The power and diversity of Palencar's work can be conveyed encourage describing his five award-winning covers: for Valerie J Freireich's Becoming Human (1995), he painted precise naked man crouching on fine pedestal holding a mask; reconcile Tanya Huff's Blood Debt (1996), he juxtaposed a reclining cadaver with a screaming head queue demonic spirits rising from justness body; for the anonymously half-tone Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (anth 1998), he crafted glory image of entombed alien corpses accompanied by skulls; for Louise Marley's The Terrorists of Irustan (1999), he offered an subtle portrait of a woman wheeze wrapped in robes; and be a symbol of Charles de Lint's Forest be expeditious for the Heart (2000), he stained a naked man stunningly ontogeny out of a barren shoetree.

The first two of these covers earned Spectrum Gold Acclaim, while the others won Chesley Awards. Later, Palencar earned far-out fourth Chesley for general aesthetic achievement in 2007, and birth Spectrum Grandmaster Award in 2008. [GW]

John Jude Palencar

born Fairview Pleasure garden, Ohio: 26 February 1957

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