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"Stephanie Pui-Mun Law"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1386; Deviations: 433; Watchers: 35443
Watching: 257; Pageviews: 1492172; Comments Made: 5635; Friends: 257
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Dave McKean, Daniel Merriam, Pre-Raphaelites, Waterhouse, Michael Parkes, Alphonse MuchaFavorite bands / musical artists: Tori Amos, Sting, Vienna Teng, Paco de Lucia, Gerardo Nunez, Bach, Chopin, Beethoven
Tools of the Trade: watercolor, digital, pencil, ink
Other Interests: books, art, flamenco, piano, tribal fusion bellydance, baking
# About me
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law has been painting fantastic otherworlds from early childhood, though her art career did not begin until 1998 when she graduated from a program of Computer Science. After three years of programming for a software company by day and rushing home to paint into the midnight hours, she left the world of typed logic and numbers, for painted worlds of dreams and the fae.Her illustrations have been for various game and publishing clients, including Wizards of the Coast, HarperCollins, LUNA Books, Tachyon Books, Alderac Entertainment, and Green Ronin. She has authored and illustrated Dreamscapes (2008, North Light Books), Dreamscapes: Myth & Magic (2010, North Light Books), and Dreamscapes: Magical Menagerie (2012, North Light Books), a series on watercolor technique for fantasy. She is the author and illustrator of best-selling tarot deck, the Shadowscapes Tarot (2009, Llewellyn Worldwide). Her work also regularly appears in Realms of Fantasy Magazine.
In addition to the commissioned projects, she has spent a great deal of time working up a personal body of work whose inspiration stems from mythology, legend, and folklore. Collections of this art are published by Shadowscapes Press. She has also been greatly influenced by the art of the Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, Surrealists, and the master hand of Nature. Swirling echoes of sinuous oak branches, watermarked leaf stains, the endless palette of the skies are her signature. Her background of over a decade as a flamenco dancer is also evident in the movement and composition of her paintings. Every aspect of her paintings moves in a choreographed flow, and the dancers are not only those with human limbs. What Stephanie tries to convey with her art is not simply fantasy, but the fantastic, the sense of wonder, that which is sacred.
While most of Stephanie's work is done with watercolors, she experiments with pen & ink, intaglio printing, acrylic, and digital painting as well.
# Comments
Comments: 6743
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I tried an exercise from one of your books. I'm still a beginner so I had to simplify it to make it tractable.
Hey are you able to upload it here so I can link to it?
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BTW what happened to Impact Books? Mark Crilley said they went bust and he had no idea what was happening with sales of his books.
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CONGRATULATIONS, Stephanie! ~ I chose YOU to be my Featured Favorite Artist! You & your AMAZING Watercolors are Featured on my Profile Page... Please come for a visit! 
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No words can be described how gorgeous your arts are.
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Your art is wonderfully magical and inspiring! 
The worlds you create and the beings inhabiting those worlds are a great delight to watch and discover. And how some of them become somewhat familiar to the viewer from showing up again and again in your series is really amazing. Even in those pictures that are not illustrations of pre-existing characters from books and other media, your original creations have character and throughout all of those paintings their story unfolds. And one cannot help but gladly set out on the journey with them.
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Вы настоящий художник! Искусством надо жить - ежедневно, ежеминутно. Вы живёте в творчестве душой. Спасибо!
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You are an incredible artist.
Seriously, I'm blown away by your work.
It's all so fantastically psychedelic and weird. I'm definitely watching for more.
Stay awesome.
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I absolutely LOVE your tarot series!! For the last 7 years I've had the Shadowscapes set and never knew where to find the artist behind the work until today. I'm so happy I found you so that I could give you my compliments first-hand!!
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Wow, your art is so awesome, surreal and fantastic, I love it, its full of imagination and creativity, thank you so much for sharing it with us.
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I just picked up the new edition of Blue Rose yesterday and I gotta tellya your artwork is one of the biggest things that makes it so memorable! Thank you for bringing such a cool game to life with your art!
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Your art is magical! Very inspirational, I spend hours admiring your works.
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You are one of my favourite painter. Your work is wonderful, your subjects so touching, your technique amazing... I love your work, I follow you since many years, and you inspired me so much when I started to look on the Web for artists whose art would be for me the teacher I never had. You have a place in my heart.
Keep up your wonderful work.
I admire you, and your Art.
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Your wonderful art featured here
Wonderful art by puimun:iconpuimun: :iconpuimun: :iconpuimun: :iconpuimun: :iconpuimun: :iconpuimun: :iconpuimun:
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I really LOVE your shadowscapes tarot! My boyfriend bought for him and I'm so in love with it ^^ Gonna buy for me too lol
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HOLLY MACAROLLI!!! I FINALLY FOUND YOU! my art teacher talked so much about you and your gorgeous art, I love your use of watercolors and masterpieces! Thanks for existing💕
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I first saw your work 10 years ago, and loved it! I love the whimsical and fantasy nature of your art!
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Having followed you for years now, I can say that I think you are a true inspiration. Your work always makes me smile and stare in awe, it never ceases to amaze me. Dreamscapes is a wonderful guide, and though I cannot hope to become as good as you are, it does help me alot with painting, thank you for sharing your art here.
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I don't know why I didn't even think you most likely had a DA account!! >.<
Yet another way to follow your artistic journey.
I'm so glad the Kickstarter project went through, the latest update looks so amazing! I cannot wait!!!
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I love your art and i like that you always incorporate nature in it. I'm a naturalist so i appreciate the details of plants and animals very much. I also love Preraphaelites! I think you will be of great inspiraton to me. ☺
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Your drawings are like dreams captured just before they fade away
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I've finally gotten a chance to feature your paintings! 
Illustration XXVII: Alphabetical Artists [M-R]
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Your gallery is just stunning and I cannot find words to tell how much I love it.
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hello! i recently bought a postcard with your art. i love your gallery
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I really like your works. I'm one of your fans. I bought 3 of your books to read how you make such beautiful paintings. I really admire you and I really hope I can paint well like you one day
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Congratulations on your return to Blue Rose!
That is where I was first introduced to your wonderful work
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Thanks! I'm looking forward to that
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These paintings are incredible. The amount of detail boggles me because I just can't get that amount of detail in my own paintings yet. I actually looked at your work a lot during college; it gave me great ideas and inspiration.
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Thanks! It's an honor to have been able to inspire.
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Oh my god. Your work is beautiful! I first saw some of your work through Specturm Live's Facebook page.
And your CV is impressive!
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I think your work is magical and inspiring.
I have three of your books and the Shadowscapes Tarot.
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