{"id":589,"date":"2012-04-25T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T02:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-04-25T22:41:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T02:41:43","slug":"my-favourite-sf-fantasy-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/my-favourite-sf-fantasy-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"My favourite SF &#038; fantasy artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was thinking about artwork <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/google-art-project\/\">yesterday<\/a>, I thought I&#8217;d mention my favourite science fiction and fantasy artist. It&#8217;s Stephan Martiniere. I love the subject matter, style, and colours in his work. He&#8217;s done lots of covers for science fiction and fantasy books, and he&#8217;s also done work for games, films, and theme parks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martiniere.com\/\">Stephan Martiniere<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One type of picture he does is a scene with a lot of depth to it where there are tall thin buildings or ships &#8212; if there are any people in the scene they&#8217;re very small. Here&#8217;s an example, which is featured on the cover of the novel <strong>Shadow in Summer<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martiniere.com\/wp-content\/themes\/photocrati-theme-v4.07\/galleries\/post-596\/thumbnails\/Shadow%20in%20Summer.jpg\">Shadow in Summer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was thinking about artwork yesterday, I thought I&#8217;d mention my favourite science fiction and fantasy artist. It&#8217;s Stephan Martiniere. I love the subject matter, style, and colours in his work. He&#8217;s done lots of covers for science fiction and fantasy books, and he&#8217;s also done work for games, films, and theme parks. Stephan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[49,9,8],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-artwork","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}