This personal piece draws from vintage horror posters, baroque ornamentation, and mid-century pulp covers.
Andreea writes that “the style of this piece sits somewhere between ecclesiastical and camp, using saturated jewel tones and textured halftones to evoke an aged, print like feel. It’s a love letter to old horror and the beauty of excess. The series as a whole is blending vintage design and surreal humour with a modern twist. I love bold shapes, grainy textures, and that perfectly imperfect print look”.
We are very proud to introduce a new Arena illustrator, Alejandro Colucci. He is an award-winning artist who is comfortable illustrating fantasy, crime, horror, historic fiction and science fiction publications across the globe. His illustrations have adorned the covers of many bestselling writers including H.G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.G. Ballard, Anne Rice, Mario Puzon and Patricia Cornwell to name just a few.
Alejandro works in a variety of techniques both traditional and digital, his artwork engages the viewer to give an emotional response to his subjects. Here are two recent book cover designs he illustrated for Michelle Paver's exciting new series, Gods and Warriors, published by Puffin.
Amazingly talented artist and animator Zdenko Basic, has just recently been given the green light to share the fantastic book trailer he worked on with Running press to promote the Steampunk triology that he and Manuel Sumberac recently worked on together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=auBLlMKLIvI
Graham Humphreys illustrates a new horror poster. Commissioned by Momentum and Hammer Films, for ' The Woman in Black' starring Daniel Radcliffe as part of the Hammer Classic Film archive collection.
Stephen Player represented by Artist Partners is living and teaching art and illustration in San Francisco, but he still finds the time to
illustrate for special projects, and has recently produced a new sample image entitled "Death" for a forthcoming Caroc project.
Stephen has always enjoyed painting the macabre, graphic novels, and other fantasy and horror subjects. He is known for his collaboration on many
Terry Pratchett titles : including
"The Illustrated Wee Free Men "
"Colour of Magic 25th Anniversary Edition "
And
"Guards Guards Board Game"
Stephen's work can also be seen as an influence on the set designs on Sky One's film production of "Hogfather" also a Terry Pratchett project.
The Red Dress ramped up the horror on this latest poster campaign for Phones 4U. They were asked by Adam & Eve to create a series of B-movie style posters, and comic strips, to sit alongside their current zombie themed TV ads.
Melvyn Grant is an artist whose work has been held with the highest esteem for many years!
Recently he was awarded a special prize for illustration by the Spanish Association Comic Con in Malaga, Spain. He was asked to attend as a guest of honour at the ceremony and awarded a prize as well as being voted best illustrator!
Melvyn always attracts an eclectic audience of fans as he has always worked in various genres of illustration – Children’s Books (covers and interiors). Terry Pratchett’s Picture Book and Calendars, Fantasy covers and Horror books, and his other identity as a much coveted album cover artist. Melvyn is the artist behind at least three of the most recent album covers for the world’s biggest heavy metal band *Iron Maiden* he has also acquired a huge fan base because of it, who enjoy following his work with ever increasing enthusiasm.
Quite recently Melvyn was asked to be involved in supplying the model Erin O’Connor with some prints of his work for her own MODEL SANCTUARY in Covent Garden !
Melvyn is also the cover artist behind many of the popular book covers by the author Darren Shan.
Wikipedia lists him many times over, with lots of interviews and links to his work if you want to find out more !
*Album covers illustrated by Mel Grant – for Iron Maiden
From Fear to Eternity
The Final Frontier
Death on the Road
And the single - Benjamin Breague
Graham Humphrey has created film posters and Interior Design for the Fright Fest 2011.
Film 4's Fright Fest is the UK's premiere fantasy and horror film festival taking place at London's Empire Leicester Square Cinema.
Over a period of five days more 20 films are shown with special appearances and signings by cast and crew.
