Another summer is
slowly coming to its end in this part of the world. Still another month to go and it will
be replaced by mostly wet and gray Dutch autumn. After spending a long, lazy
summer vacation in sunny and hot Serbia, I came back to my studio charged up
and ready for a new working (painting) season.
I will keep on posting
new blog entries, although probably less often than before. There will be a
slight change in the content of the posts, as I will try to bring my writings
to another level and to change the course a little bit. Not all the future
posts will be “new”, and even then they will certainly be nothing new outside
the Fantasy Art field.
I will start this
time with an info about the International Artist magazine.
Perhaps you already know about this magazine, that has been voted the best art
magazine in the world. International Artist is read by over 120,000 readers in
over 20 countries including art galleries and artists’ agents worldwide.
In March this year I
was approached by Vincent Miller, the
publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine, who asked me whether I would like
my work to be feature in the International Artist magazine in The Art of
Illustration section. Mr. Miller explained his motifs to include the section
about illustration in the magazine that is primarily dedicated to fine arts:
“I have been publishing art magazines for many years
and in my experience have found that many illustrators working in the
traditional mediums are fine artists too.
To foster this crossover talent and to help gifted
illustrators gain a higher profile and with the help of well-known illustrator Rebecca Guay, I started a special
section in International Artist magazine in February 2011. Since then we have
published many articles by some of the best Illustrators.
Names you may know are: James Gurney, Greg Manchess, Eric Fortune, Boris Vallejo, Donato
Giancola, Julie Bell, Bill Carman, Jean-Baptiste Monge, Brom, Omar Rayyan…”
Definitely a great initiative! Here
you can see the results of my collaboration with International Artist (Issue 86,
August/September 2012).
