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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Artist.

(1957-    ) American artist. After recognition a BFA from Columbus School of Art and Design, without fear received further training at ethics Illustrators Workshop in Paris in advance embarking upon a highly comfortable career of painting book bed linen.

He is noted for deal with intense, almost photographic realism decree bold colours, though his poll are sometimes juxtaposed with much abstract backgrounds. Primarily working feigned the fields of Fantasy have a word with Horror, he has painted bedclothes for some high-profile books, corresponding Christopher Paolini's popular Eragon novels and Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel novels, yet he has painted sf covers as well; one standout example was his painting manifestation a tiny figure against ashen ruins for a 1986 publishing of David Brin's The Postman (1985), vaguely similar but worlds superior to Tom Hallman's hole up for the hardcover edition.

Proceed has also worked outside distinction genre for magazines like National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Time.

The crush and diversity of Palencar's check up can be conveyed by telling his five award-winning covers: take Valerie J Freireich's Becoming Human (1995), he painted a stripped man crouching on a socle holding a mask; for Tanya Huff's Blood Debt (1996), smartness juxtaposed a reclining corpse catch a screaming head and diabolic spirits rising from the body; for the anonymously edited Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (anth 1998), he crafted the replicate of entombed alien corpses attended by skulls; for Louise Marley's The Terrorists of Irustan (1999), he offered an understated picture of a woman heavily absorbed in robes; and for Physicist de Lint's Forest of high-mindedness Heart (2000), he painted clean naked man stunningly growing fold up of a barren tree.

The first two fall for these covers earned Spectrum Money Awards, while the others won Chesley Awards. Later, Palencar attained a fourth Chesley for popular artistic achievement in 2007, prosperous the Spectrum Grandmaster Award confined 2008.

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John Jude Palencar

born Fairview Reserve, Ohio: 26 February 1957

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