| Todd Lockwood, Melanie Delon, and Stephan Martiniere for Best Artist |
[Jan. 6th, 2010|07:29 pm] |
I highlighted Todd Lockwood's work over the summer and as I review the Locus Directory of Cover Artists for 2009 I continue to find that his work this year holds its own compared to the work of other artists in the field. If you haven't seen it, I also encourage you to check out the detail of Todd Lockwood's Stormcaller from sketch to finish which Irene Gallo posted last year, with input from Lou Anders and Todd Lockwood.
 Looking through the Locus directory I was also reminded that I really like Melanie Delon's cover of Libyrinth by Pearl North, as well as her covers of Alison Sinclair's Darkborn and Kirsten Imani Kasai' Ice Song. The covers that feature a single character and not much else are becoming more common these days and I think it might be easy to discount that work for lack of complexity, but to do so would be to overlook the question of how effective and provocative the artwork is. With so much focus on a single figure and face it is especially important to make those images strong and I think Delon does a great job with her portraits. I am unsurprised to find that her work has been featured for years in such collections as Spectrum (she had the Cover of Spectrum 16), Exotique, Exposé and Fantasy Art Now and she was selected to be one of the authors in Ballistic's masterwork series on how to do digital art.
 Finally, I particularly admire the breadth of Stephan Martiniere's work this year. He has done a few of his now-familiar visionscapes (always framed with an interesting foreground piece), but he also did the quiet personal cover of Jo Walton's Lifelode for NESFA Press, and the stunning cover of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road for Pyr's reprint.
So far these are the artists I'm sure I'll be nominating for Best Professional Artist for this year's Hugo Award, and I commend them to your attention.
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| Nominations for this year's Hugo Awards are now open |
[Jan. 3rd, 2010|10:46 pm] |
As a member of Anticipation I am eligible to nominate works and people for those awards. If there are any works of 2009 to which you would particularly like to draw my attention, please let me know and I will aim to include them in my review.
Thanks. |
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| Happy New Year's Eve! |
[Dec. 31st, 2009|03:07 pm] |
Hope you all have a safe and fun New Year's eve.
I am not doing the year in perspective thing tonight. Maybe tomorrow. I have not felt much like writing lately, which is why it looks like I won't have a Wellspring to show you today. Also, I have had other things to do. Furthermore I haven't been feeling exactly well, so this week in my free time I've mostly been lying around reading British Summertime by Paul Cornell and The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson. Both really seem to reflect a lot of each author and their personal philosophy. I am glad to have read them.
Two of the most exciting developments of 2009 will not be announced until sometime in 2010. I don't know when, or I would let you know. Suffice to say, I think you will be delighted.
In the meantime, I've had years both worse and better than 2009 but I expect to be safe and among friends tonight and I get to have Brian with me all week, so I have plenty to celebrate. Hope you do too. |
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| Happy Christmas Eve! |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|10:42 am] |
Night sky over APL
Originally uploaded by netmouse.
I thought this was a pretty scene on Monday evening at APL in Maryland.
I hope you all find someplace safe and warm and happy to be tonight, whether you celebrate Christmas or not.
And best wishes to all for the season and the coming New Year. |
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