Your Favorite Fantasy Artist

[satindesire]

For the last two years I've taken a serious liking to fantasy and erotic art. Not so much photography but paintings...One artist I'm falling IN LOVE with is Hajime Sorayama.

http://arterotica.nice.ru/index.php/images/Hajime_Sorayama_Pinup/2/

That site has almost two hundred paintings he's done. His work's been features in countless magazines, on album covers, and etc. He is most famous for his work on the female form, which may look as though he uses airbrushes, but they're all done -By Brush-!

His talent is amazing, and I'm constantly on the search for something as good.

So...My question is...Do any of YOU have a favorite fantasy/erotic artist?

 

[SpectreT]

Olivia, Brom, Sorayama, Luis Royo, Boris Vallejo and Larry Elmore to name a few.

 

[jadefirefly]

Is there a link to the site you're mentioning, satin? I'd love to see it.

 

[Betticus]

I'm gonna have to go with Luis Royo, hands down!

 

[Betticus]

Google is your friend!

http://www.sorayama.net/

 

[jadefirefly]

Ooooooooh, pretty.....

 

[satindesire]

http://arterotica.nice.ru/index.php/images/Hajime_Sorayama_Pinup/

That site has almost two hundred of his pictures. Enjoy!

 

[fallenupright]

Norma Peters

Some of her older work

She is simply awesome. She used to do requests, and she did one of my RP characters a long time ago... Akkania, in the gallery of older work.

Edited to add - her work is fantasy, very few are erotic.

 

[catalina_francisco]

If I had to pick just one, Luis Royo is it. I love the consistency of appeal his work fosters in me always.

Catalina

 

[jadefirefly]

Ooooh, thank you, satin! And I agree, too, Luis Royo is always fantastic.

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

My favorite is the Australian Artist Norman Lindsay. There is a providence for me in his art. My parents took me to visit his home/gallery and a very impressionable age. Norman Lindsay worked across abroad spectrum of mediums everything from pencil through to sculpture as well as a poet and author in his own right.

My dear parents had taken me to see the characters of his childrens book 'The Magic Pudding'. I was only mildly interested. What captured my attention was the myriad of fantastic creatures, extravagant costumes and naked people in his art. Often combined in a singular composition. I know my earliest erotic fantasies can be attributed to his work.

I have just had a look online for one of my favorite works of his and have yet to find it. Noticing a re occurring theme in how he portrays woman . They either in my opinion take on Diva status ( for the sake of this Forum lets extend that to Domme) or they are nymph like being dragged off by men and monsters ( heh )..... Whats not to like about that .............smiles

Last comment .....Norman Lindsay lived an extraordinary life well outside the bounds of social convention. Which I believe is why he built his home in the Country . He didn't just paint the unique, he lived it.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/rebecca000/88049.jpg

Not a favorite , just an example.​

EDIT Found this on ebay today Book for sale in USA

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) is well known in the Australian art world for his flamboyant subject matter, most notably his vigorous portrayal of nude women.

Of this, Jane Scott, Director of the Monash City Art Gallery recently wrote:

‘The countless lusting nymphs and lecherous satyrs in so many of Lindsay’s works constitute a sort of army of the libido, fighting the good fight against wowserism’.

From the earliest times as an artist, Norman Lindsay used photography to record photographic reference material for later use in his drawings, etchings and paintings. Photographs of semi-clad and nude men and women were commonplace. Biographies of the Lindsay Family of artists are strewn with photographs of the artists and their friends staging comic Greek tragedies and other Tom Foolery in the back yard of their Creswick family home prior in the late 1800s. Most recently, an article published in the ‘Olympic’ 2000 edition of Art & Australia features such photographs. The Lindsay commitment to photography was such they had even installed a fully functional dark room within the Creswick family home. Original copies of these poorly printed photographs sometimes find their way onto the open market but they most often pass from one collector to another. Glass negatives from this period are a rare find indeed.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930 Norman Lindsay was plagued by the censors and the New south Wales Vice Squad who were the running dogs for assorted wowsers in the community who vehemently opposed Lindsay’s adoration of the female nude in art.

In more recent years, the Lindsay family opposed publication of these photographs, ironically stating would be publishers should act in a ‘moral’ way and let these Blue Mountains nude models rest in peace. Of these glass negatives, Helen Glad, grand-daughter of the artist is reported to have said:

‘Pat (Corrigan) wanted to do a book, get them printed into a book,’ Helen (Glad) said. ‘And we denied copyright, and he was most surprised that Jane said “No”. And I said, “Because Pat, you don’t know the names of the models who posed for him, and it is not fair for them, without seeking their permission, to have those photographs reproduced. They’re all probably all grandmothers now, they may not want people to know. You cannot do it.’ It’s very interesting when the law is on your side to make people act in a moral way.’

 

[Little Bird]

I think the very best is Todd Lockwood, though he hadn't done anything even slightly erotic, that I know of.
But his skill as an artist is beyond words.

http://www.toddlockwood.com/

 

[malinborn]

Sorayama and Luis Royoare by far my favorite fantasy artists right now... i mean, i have some pieces I really enjoy from other artists, but the favorite on my wall right now is Communion by Royo.

 

[cati]

Definitely Cleavenger...