Fantasy Artwork; Surrealistic and photo realistic Fantasy Illustration by Howard David Johnson

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	Fantasy Artwork; Surrealistic and Photo Realistic Fantasy Illustrations depicting Fantastic Fantasy Worlds, filled with Creatures, Castles, Dungeons, Dragons, Heroes and Beautiful Maidens, Fairies, Mermaids, gods and monsters... all in a style inspired by classic illustrators.

Surrealistic Fantasy Illustration Gallery

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Surrealism is a literary and artistic movement launched in 1924 by the French poet Andre' Breton proclaiming the radical transformation of all existing social, scientific, and philosophical values through the total liberation of the subconscious.

Salvador Dali's name has become synonymous with surrealism. His subconscious mind saw things that should be rigid were limp or melting and reflected it in his work with a sense of horror. Melting things are not always surrealistic and surrealism is potentially as vast as the human psyche.

Everyone has different things enslaved in their subconscious mind. The monsters and beauty goddesses shackled in Johnson's subconscious mind run free in his art.

David loves to do custom Fantasy book covers like the one to your right, especially to help emerging writers. Publishing calls for a different shape than traditional picture framing. Many of David's Fantasy Art posters can be modified to add more space at the top with Adobe Photoshop (tm) Software. In the early days of David's career adding canvas space was as impossible as growing a second head...

"If you've never seen the Lon Chaney Sr. Phantom of the Opera you're really missing out. The immortal classic silent film masterpiece provided the inspiration for this piece. Speaking of "Classics...

"The Protector of the Forest" MMX from German Fairy Tales and "Baba Yaga" MMX from Russia.

~ Look for the Fairies 2011 Calendar coming soon!

"The Sleeping Beauty" MMX

"Snow White and the poisoned Apple" (MMX)

"The Sleeping Beauty" and "Snow White" are based on the stories in "The Fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm" which was first published under the title, "The German Book of Popular Stories" as they themselves did not write any of them.

In the sacred Hebrew texts the Serpent or Dragon was the source of sin and death, a conception which was adopted by the New Testament and so passed into Christianity... in this illustration we see the devil, "that old serpent", the most beautiful of God's angels being cast in the lake of Fire. (From Revelation 20) by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel. I think the ugly portrayals of him are inaccurate, he comes as a beautiful angel of Light, deceiving and seducing whom he will...

"Classic Myths and Legends never fail to captivate my imagination and can be great fantasy illustrations with all their gods and monsters, not to mention all the beautiful ladies."

Chicks in chain mail? The warrior woman has emerged in recent times as ferocious and deadly as the mightiest male warriors of myth and history. The weaker sex? Not in these stories! The oddest part of this fun new phenomenon in fantasy art, cartoons, novels and movies is the eagerness of certain writers to pretend they always existed and to present historical figures in this light. "Goblin Fighter Halith" MMX (above left) and "Duel of the Amazons" MMX (above right) Featuring Fabulous Ferocious Fighting Femme Fatales.

"Atalanta" [left MMX] was the daughter of Hades and grew up in the wilderness. Once, Artemis, goddess of the Hunt (AKA Diana) was forgotten at sacrifice by King Oineus, and became furious and sent a wild boar that terrorized men, cattle and prevented crops from being planted. Atalanta joined many famous heroes on the hunt. Many of the men were angry that a woman was joining the hunt and several of the men were killed before Atalanta was the first to hit the boar and draw blood.

AMAZON WARRIORS from ancient myth and legend were among the few fantasy warrior women of traditional folklore

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Where would Fantasy Art be without Dragons and Trolls?

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" My favorite fantasy illustration themes have always been the two-fisted tales of fantastic adventure in the heroic tradition and the classic fairy tale..."

"...the true measure of a fantasy artist is not the subject matter or the technique , but is always the amount of "magic" in the air ...and whether the picture tells a story..." ~HDJ

"Muse of Fire" MMX Surrealism and Symbolism run rampant in this contemporary Surrealist Fantasy Illustration.

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Howard David Johnson is a contemporary visual artist and photographer with a background in the natural sciences and history. He works in a wide variety of media ranging from traditional oils, pastels and others to cutting edge digital media. After a lifetime of drawing and painting, Howard David Johnson's Traditional Realistic Art was exhibited in the British Museum in London in 1996, ( 3 years before he got his first computer ) as well as numerous American ones since, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His illustrations have appeared in every major bookstore and gameshop chain in America as well as magazines and educational texts around the world. Some of his more prestigious clients have included the University of Texas, the Book of the Month Club, Paramount Studios, PBS TV, Adobe Photoshop Auto FX, and J Walter Thompson Advertising. Licenses to print his existing work are available at surprisingly affordable prices. Oil Paintings, Colored pencils, Pastels, Mixed media, and Digital art can also be commissioned for select projects - Working in a variety of traditional and cutting edge digital media he offers his customers a variety of options and more than thirty years of experience. As a commercial illustrator HDJ has not only used the computer but has been involved in the development of imaging software. On his existing works license offers start as low as $100.00

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Artist's Statement:

A portrait of the artist in his painting studio as he is today. This September 2009 photo was taken by his youngest son Erich.

"Did you know that many of the breathtaking works Pre-Raphaelites were doing in oils in the 1800’s were declared not to be Art? Not only not fine art, but not art at all! In London the Royal Academy had a very narrow view as to what qualified. No wonder Rossetti led a rebellion against them. How about other styles? Impressionism is a great example; It was not enough that these institutions rejected the work, but they felt the need to destroy the person’s reputation and livelihood. Of course collectors pay millions for these Impressionistic paintings now, and Curators, Historians and Professional Art Critics all hail them as sensitive works of fine art. When Monet submitted his work to the Salon in Paris, they said" A monkey has gotten a hold of a set of paints" and would paint huge "R"s for "rejected on the back canvas. Rejecting him was not enough for them. They wanted to be sure he never sold another picture. They wanted to hurt him and his family for sick sadistic pleasure. He got really good at re-stretching his canvas with a double layer to cover up their hateful defacement of his original art. They saw themselves as powerful as the deadly committee for public safety in the French Revolution as far as the Art World went and delighted in "sending artists to the guillotine", so to speak.

These hateful little petty tyrants were unable to keep his name out of the history books or to keep his paintings for selling for millions of dollars. This is the treatment someone who creates a new style gets, but developments in applied technology like manufactured tube paints as opposed to hand mixed paints were violently rejected by these types as well and they forcefully proclaimed anyone who used paints from a tube was not a "real artist". Actually, masters had several apprentices that would mix their paints for them. Well, tube paints are pretty well accepted now. So will photography and digital media in time. Today artists have computers instead of indentured servants. You probably know how bad Photographers were treated, but now it is a respected Art Form.

I read about the hateful things they said about Pastels and Mary Cassat, and now Pastel Paintings are considered Fine Art and Mary Cassat’s works are regarded as masterpieces. Now that snobs have Digital Artists to look down on, Colored Pencils are actually starting to get some respect. Digital artists- Our day too will come."

~Howard David Johnson 2006

By Popular Demand! So many have written asking how to tell the various media apart~ But friends! That's JUST my point! Left Digital Montage, Center: Prismacolor Painting, Right Oil on canvas

With a background in traditional media including oils, pastels & colored pencils, Howard David Johnson embraces leading edge digital media in the creation of his depictions of fantasy, folklore, mythology, legend, religion, and heroic history. He works in and mixes a wide variety of media * Oil paintings * Acrylic Paintings * Prismacolor Paintings * Drawings * Chalk & Oil Pastel Paintings * Photography * Digital Artistry & Mixed Media *

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