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Detail from the back glass art for Rob Zombie Spookshow International pinball...Related content
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Thanks!! Had a ton of fun and lots of freedom with these.
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Gorgeous work! I'd love to share this with my werewolf themed tumblr, do you have an account where I can share directly from? Have a great day!
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Just WHO does this Alex Horley think he is ? Are the rest of us budding artists of Sci Fi intricacy and Fantasy glory condemned to sit helplessly and witness this Horley dismantle our own tepid efforts with his vast output of uniform excellence ? I guess so.
Inevitably, Alex Horley will be compared to Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Simon Bisley . Frazetta, considered to be the father of Modern Fantasy Art, was also a man of his time : particularly the 60's,70's and onward. His output was prodigious , and one cannot deny the power and lyricism of his main works. But, to be fair, alongside his seminal works, there is an uncomfortable amount of lesser works that , honestly, barely rise above the mediocre. Of course, NO artist is going to churn out a masterpiece EVERY time. Even frazetta . Harley, on the other hand , seems to unapologetically to put out excellence of a uniform nature.
Simon bisley's work is certainly similar, except that Bisley can only be Bisley ( which, in itself, is quite a feat !) . Horley ? He is quite capable of summoning Bisley's extraordinary power, yet, alex can rise above many of the Bisley extremes, ( including the raw crudities that occasionally occur.) the finished product is WAY more approachable in alex's case for a larger public. Bisley, god love him , will probably remain the ultimate exponent of Shock.
vallejo's technique will always be thing of wonder . He is similar to christian Lassen, in that total output is uniformly perfect. The sad thing is, ' prefect' swings by the same pendulum of nature. An perfect apple rises to it's perfect 'finished' state , and then ultimately falls to decay and then mulch. Where does one go from a static level of ' perfect ?' The answer, in vallejo's case, is a vast body of work that is largely homogenous, excellent as it may be.
Horley's future seems secure. Great as his body of work is now, one cannot help but visualize something yet Unseen in his case.
and the rest of us, as long as we are compared to Horley ,for the most part, are doomed to lavish in the warm arms of Mediocrity, not withstanding our finest and most inspired work. In this, many of us will be forced to forge ahead with our own ' unseen' abilities. we may not be perfect, but our own imperfections serve to remind us that every artist and musician has a story to tell. We certainly will be inspired by Alex's brilliance, but, like him, we can muddle through to are own untold glory'
Sir Bernard Bunnioncorne, The London Observer
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To whom it may concern: I didn't pay this guy!!
hey Robert ( not Sir Bernard!), I really appreciate you took the time to write this. I'm really flattered.
i don't know if my output is always at the same standard, but IF so, is because of the sheer amount of lesser works, some good, a lot mediocre, that I produced over the last 23 years...
Only in recent years I started to feel confident enough about it to put it on social media. And that for me is a big goal!
i do feel I started finding my own voice and I really appreciate the comparisons, but all of us owe Frank Frazetta for creating the visual foundations of modern fantasy art. As Kirby forged the language for modern sequential art, so Frazetta did for the painted medium.
I studied almost every artist in the book, Corben, Buscema, Bisley, Boris, Sanjulian and countless more, but Frazetta is the reason I picked up a brush in the first place and still one of my main inspirations.
dont know if the future is secure, I doubt every painting I do until the last brush stroke, but as long as I'll have fun with it as well, it'll be good or at least entertaining.
thanks again for your "essay" , you are a really talented writer!
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In regards to my idea about you perhaps considering including the dramatic Italian landscapes in your personal works, I re-thought this idea. In looking at your works, i already can see the influences of Italian life in both your contorting figures, and dramatic use of light and shade, plus tension-derived design. I can speak from my own experience growing up on the rugged California coast line, and the overpowering hills and towers if san francisco . My current hometown of Mill valley, with it's narrow canyons, cliffs, imposing redwoods is also considered to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. At the time of Word War I, many Italians and Germans emigrated here, because it reminded them of home ! My own modest pieces reflect that influence. Some day , i will visit Italy with my brother and son : Urbino, Romagna, Bologna with it's patented reddish sculptures, Tuscany and senttignago with it's mountains of stone. If you are ever up in san francisco, give me a call, and i will show you the sights. My own neighborhood in tam valley is a temperate rain forest . a good metaphysical book, written in 1800 by Edward Bulwar Letten , called ZANONI, is about the count of St Germain, an alchemist who in real life baffles historian scholars with his appearances throughout the ages, never having aged, and capable of great Occult Powers . He still appears to Seekers from time to time, usually on Mountains, and also advised Madame Blavatsky in her occult researches. He , himself was not a medium, but an Occult Adept with avatar powers, and was a prominent figure , and secret catalyst of the French revolution .
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Thank you Angelo! And thanks also for the faves!!
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Your Welcome great master you all ready know i'm your fan
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Cheers, man! I really appreciate it!
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' In this unutterable panel of eldritch horror one suffers an intake of icy Knowledge : that in the prosaic world of saints and sinners, there is Another World of Being . And within this veiled Third World of ours stalks this Unholy Union of Nature and damnation, as these grisly Outcasts of Hell live and thrive on the blood and life of the Unsuspecting. " Johann Gottfried Schnell , Chronicles of Ahriman
' To look into the lambent eyes of the Wolf Being is to gaze upon an Unholy Chasm of festering beings without soul . A night of unspeakable blood lust and extravagant Misery."
Solomon Pincus, The fairfax Gazette
' ...from what Hell has this madman Horley crawled ? Picture after picture of horror, madness and Death. These baleful pictures , drawn from the dusky side of Universal Nightmare seduce and demoralize all that would stand resolute in the face of terror . " The London Christian Weekly, Reverend Santos Pitti
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Ahh, that Reverend Santos Pitti...he never gives up!
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And I thought pinball games were extinct. Nice wolfie. Do you primarily paint in oils or acrylics?
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Looks like they aren't and there's a really big collectors community. I use both, acrylics first and then oils to finish off.
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I used to own two arcades at one time. Pinbot and Golden Tee which I miss. Thanks for the response.
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