Tuesday, August 26, 2008

John Jude Palencar: Mystery of Grace

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.

8 comments:

Eric Braddock said...

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.

Anonymous said...

i LOVE palencar's work! this one is great and the sketches are great to see. thanks for showing em, irene.

ces said...

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.

Carl V. Anderson said...

Palencar and De Lint makes for a must buy, no doubt about it. Thanks for the sneak peek! :)

Lana Gramlich said...

Cool! I rarely see black & white works on book covers. Is this a common practice with TOR?

Irene Gallo said...

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.

Lana Gramlich said...

I see the color image now...didn't see it the other day. Really neat!

Unknown said...

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?