Marta Dahlig, 1985 | Fantasy / Concept Illustrator

Marta Dahlig is an Polish🎨 digital painter who has been recognized with numerous awards🎨 for her work and contributions.

Her artwork have been featured everywhere from CG society, ImagineFX to countless other magazines, publications and blogs.

I am live in Warsaw, Poland. For my official employment, a “regular” full time job - I currently work as a media planner at MPG media agency. I know - not too artsy...

In fact, it’s an extremely analytic, number-crunching job. Maybe it doesn’t fit well with the image but I like the challenge the contrast is giving me…

Illustrating I do out of passion. Currently I work as a cover illustrator for a few German publishing houses as well as prepare tutorials for Future Publishing’s ImagineFX magazine on a nearly monthly basis.

Volodia Popov, 1961 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Michurinsk, Volodia Popov-Massiaguine / Володя Попов is a Russian painter🎨 living in Paris.

Volodia Popov is the artist for whom does not exist any stylistic border.

The horizonts of his creativity are opened widely to meet the seven winds. At any time filled with salty energy sails can transfer the clipper of his inexhaustible imagination to unfamiliar mysterious coast of new terra incognita.

Volodia Popov-Massiaguine has tackled a variety of pictorial genres, exhibiting a particular talent for the female form and still-life’s.

Jim Warren, 1949 | Fantasy / Surrealist painter

American painter Jim Warren was born in Long Beach, California and currently lives in Clearwater, Florida.

Jim Warren is considered a "living legend" of the art world.

His work has graced hundreds of movie posters, book and magazine covers, record albums most notably Grammy Award winning cover for Bob Seger's album, "Against the Wind" in 1981.

Beginnings: Started painting at age 2, like all children. Went through the usual string of career choices such as: artist, magician, artist, rock star, artist etc.

Pedro Salinas / Bill Bate | If you would call me / Se tu mi chiamassi / Si me llamaras..

Se mi chiamassi, sì,

se mi chiamassi.

Io lascerei tutto,

tutto io getterei:

i prezzi, i cataloghi,

l'azzurro dell'oceano sulle carte,

i giorni e le loro notti,

i telegrammi vecchi

ed un amore.

Tu, che non sei il mio amore,

se mi chiamassi!

If you would call me, oh yes,

if you would only call me!

I would leave everything,

I would throw everything over;

prices, catalogs,

the blue of the ocean on maps,

The days and their nights,

old telegrams

and a love,

You, who are not my love,

if you would only call me!

Bill Bate🎨

Michelangelo Buonarroti | S'egli è che 'n dura pietra alcun somigli | Sonetto 242

S’egli è che ’n dura pietra alcun somigli

talor l’immagin d’ogni altri a se stesso,

squalido e smorto spesso

il fo, com’i’ son fatto da costei.

E par ch’esempro pigli

ognor da me, ch’i’ penso di far lei.