It's no secret that John Jude Palencar is one of my favorites. Here is his latest for Charles de Lint's Mystery of Grace, due out next summer. This is one where I got really excited the moment the sketch came in. For a more intimate experience with John's work, check out his book, Origins: The Art of John Jude Palencar
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
John Jude Palencar: Mystery of Grace
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Palencar's work is down right amazing. He agreed to put a selection of his originals up at UArts while I was there and it became difficult walking past the gallery without tip-toeing in and just losing yourself in all of his little mark makings. His work is absolutely gorgeous.
i LOVE palencar's work! this one is great and the sketches are great to see. thanks for showing em, irene.
I've never read Charles DeLint. I suppose I should. I just finished Daniel Abraham's 3 books, one after another, and am now waiting for Joel Shepherd's first book in his Cassandra series so I can read them.
And I do like Palencar's work! Seeing the sketches and then the final painting is really wonderful.
Thank you Irene!
p.s. Hopefully today wasn't a dull day.
Palencar and De Lint makes for a must buy, no doubt about it. Thanks for the sneak peek! :)
Cool! I rarely see black & white works on book covers. Is this a common practice with TOR?
Hi Lana - I should have been clearer. the pencil drawings were the sketches leading up to the color final.
Although - we have on occasion worked with a scratchbaord artists named Patrick Arrasmith and have done black and white covers. Not something we can do often, but striking when it works out.
I see the color image now...didn't see it the other day. Really neat!
Amazingly beautiful! I just read Cherie M. Priests work and it had the loveliest, creepiest Palencar cover. He does beautiful and creepy well, would that be grotesque?
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