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Welcome To My Worlds: The Art of Rob Alexander
Here is the very first book devoted to the work of Chesley Award Winner Rob Alexander, one of the most versatile and highly respected artists today. Alexander's gorgeous watercolors look more like oils or acrylics, and he has a subtle, beautiful, and wonderfully evocative style that works well in a variety of genres. Although his images have appeared in such publications as Amazing Stories and Cricket magazine, he's best known as the painter who creates pictures of sad-eyed women, eerie beings who perch in trees or carve mysterious messages in skulls, hauntingly lovely landscapes, and young children who either discover, imagine, or make wondrous things. All these facets of his art are represented in this breathtaking collection.
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128 pages, Hardcover
First published June 28, 2005
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November 6, 2020
Well I am certainly on a roll with my Paper Tiger collection - although I would not exactly say this is planned.
This is one of the later titles published - as demonstrated by the price of the original book (multiples of the price asked for the early editions) - the format (hardback rather than card) as well as the general quality of presentation all speak of a more established and I guess opulent approach. It just makes it all the greater a shame that the publishing house was mothballed and probably permanently disbanded.
This is an artist I will admit I knew next to nothing about although it did not take long reading the introductions how productive and wide spread he really is. here is a perfect example of an artist who is far wider shown than I could have possibly realised.
What is more (and I will admit this may have been biased from the various commentaries presented with each entry) but it would appear that the artist tries to capture something that is special to him in each of his pieces - he does not churn them out for a quick sale rather he tries to find something that speaks to him and incorporate that in to the piece. I think this makes each and everyone of them something special since each says a little about Rob Alexander as much as the subject matter being presented.
This is a thought provoking book which is not what I was expecting - but one I enjoyed and appreciated none the less.
This is one of the later titles published - as demonstrated by the price of the original book (multiples of the price asked for the early editions) - the format (hardback rather than card) as well as the general quality of presentation all speak of a more established and I guess opulent approach. It just makes it all the greater a shame that the publishing house was mothballed and probably permanently disbanded.
This is an artist I will admit I knew next to nothing about although it did not take long reading the introductions how productive and wide spread he really is. here is a perfect example of an artist who is far wider shown than I could have possibly realised.
What is more (and I will admit this may have been biased from the various commentaries presented with each entry) but it would appear that the artist tries to capture something that is special to him in each of his pieces - he does not churn them out for a quick sale rather he tries to find something that speaks to him and incorporate that in to the piece. I think this makes each and everyone of them something special since each says a little about Rob Alexander as much as the subject matter being presented.
This is a thought provoking book which is not what I was expecting - but one I enjoyed and appreciated none the less.
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