Asni’s Art Blog: The Concept of Time
January, named for the two-headed god Janus – who looks back to the past and forward to the future, is an excellent time to explore expressions of time in fantastic art
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Asni’s Art Blog: Happy 25 December!
Astrid gathers together a wide ranging and truly eye-opening collection of artistic expressions of Christmas – pensive, acerbic, ironic, humorous and haunting.
Asni’s Art Blog: Angels
Astrid examines the evolution of the Angels as the subject of fantastical art.
Trips to Hidden Places
Astrid shows us the way to Shangri-La, and other mystical, hidden places
IlluXcon Roundup: Interview with Iris Compiet
The story is about a little princess whose parents want her to marry a prince, but all the princes are just not very interesting to her, they are nice but there’s no spark… and that’s when she falls in love with another princess.
It’s Halloween!
Need some scary, macabre, bizarre inspiration for all hallows eve? Look no further!
Lisbeth Salander
We’ve been having some pretty wild weather here in the Wairarapa lately, which meant that I’ve been sitting without power for over 24 hours earlier this week. While sitting around waiting for the contractors from the power company to turn up and put me back on the grid, I’ve managed to read myself through a substantial chunk of Stieg Larsson’s “Millenium” trilogy*: finally! I should say!
Witch: The Young Woman
In my last blog, I have been looking at representations of Witches, which are depicted as old women: and I have remarked on the fact that I’ve been hard put to find sufficient images to […]
Witch: The Old Woman
Not all witches are always out to suck a child’s soul – or fatten them up and eat them
Shameless Self Promotion: “Metropolis” exhibition in Wellington
For being such an eclectic bunch of people, the exhibition seems surprizingly congruent, and everyone’s work looks pretty fab
Interview: Sunila Sen Gupta, Dragon Lady
Hello! My name is Sunila Sen Gupta, I’m a 45 year old biologist turned illustrator and graphic designer in training, based in Switzerland. I am self-taught in illustration and have been working professionally for ten years now.
The Art of Au Contraire! 2013
A couple of weekends ago, I had the pleasure to attend Au Contraire!, the New Zealand national Science Fiction, Fantasy and Geekery convention here in Wellington. It was the second Au Contraire! I attended: three […]
Interview: Milivoj Ćeran, Fantasy Illustrator
“Hello, My name is Milivoj Ćeran, I live in Zagreb, Croatia. I’m a professional illustrator specialized in fanastic art.” Q: What made you want to be a fantasy illustrator? A: “That idea was in my […]
Hits and Misses
Before the unthinkable happens and I miss my deadline for this blog post, why not do a meditation on – deadlines. There is art for every occasion. There truly is. Obviously, I am not the […]
World Underground
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I recently signed myself up for a Horticulture Certificate with the Open Polytech, and have been assiduously studying the physical and chemical properties of soils […]
City Lights, City Grunge
From Metropolis to Blade Runner, the city of the future has been a subject for science fiction artists and film makers, who have vented both dreams and deep-seated fears. This blog post offers a collection […]
Cosmic Dance
Who isn’t fascinated by the images of outer space, which have become available over the last few decades from ever more powerful telescopes: the iridescent colour play of stars in the making, the drifting clouds […]
The Architects of the Future
In my last blog, I featured the work of artists who have, in their own different ways, imagined what it might be like to look at an alien sky. The artists I feature in this […]
Gazing at Alien Skies
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to look at an alien sky? The sky of a planet whose atmosphere has a different chemical composition to that on Earth, resulting in entirely different […]
Art + Fandom ≠ Fan Art, part II: Images of Galadriel
Well it looks like I put my foot right into it in my previous post! Several people objected to my definition of the term “Fan Art”. They felt that it was not in accordance with […]
Art + Fandom ≠ Fan Art: Definitions
Before I get properly rolling with this blog, I thought it might be worth taking a moment to stake out the territory I plan to cover. This website, and these blogs, are all about fandom, […]
Hobbit Art – Before the Movie (well, almost)
Kia ora and welcome to my new Visual Arts blog on Amazing Stories! First up, let’s have some Hobbit art. Let me state this outright: I am not going to try to determine who is the “greatest artist” in the fandom. I am not particularly interested in who is the most technically proficient, or the most outrageously inventive. Who gets the biggest fees, the most prestigious projects, has the greatest fan base, or who, by whose definition, is the “most famous”. I like to feature art I like.
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