Fantasy Art Women

These series of posts are a fascinating picture into the production of women in fantasy art.  It’s a great hint into how two great artists work together.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.  The three posts focus on the production of the “John Carter of Mars” painting.

First, we see the original women in fantasy art sketches and some back story…

We did this drawing as a private commission. One of the most fun and exciting things about working on fantasy art is the FANTASY part! The story of John Carter of Mars is such a blast. To do our research for this piece, we borrowed a copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “The Gods of Mars & The Warlord of Mars” from our own Dave Palumbo who has an especially beautiful edition that has the cover art as well as interior illustrations by Frank Frazetta. What a story! If you haven’t read these stories yet, better get to it!
–Boris and Julie

(This posting is from Paint and Brush. Click the link to view the full article from its original source.)

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Next Boris and Julie talk a little about how they complete a painting.  I was aware that they collaborated before but never at such a level.  I can’t imagine what it would be like to share a painting like that.  For me, I have so many ideas of where I’m going with something that I would have a hard time just picking up where someone else left off (and worrying that they took my idea in a different direction).

Here is Julie working on the last stages of a painting based on ERB’s John Carter, a private commission from a friend of ours. We are taking turns in our usual unplanned way, There is no “you do this and I do that”. One of us just takes over when the other is ready to stop. At the end of the day the only important thing is to divide the working time as evenly as we can and to have lots of fun!
The drawing below is the preliminary sketch for two of the white apes in the right half of the painting.

–Boris

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Finally the finished work …

At long last, here is the finished painting of John Carter of Mars. During the holidays, due to various ice storms and cold viruses, we were able to get plenty of work done. Not a whole lot of partying, but lots of painting. Well, you know, the farmers say to make hay while the sun shines…artists say to make paintings while you’re housebound!

(This posting is from Paint and Brush. Click the link to view the full article from its original source.)

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