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22nd
"LIMITED EDITION SATURDAY"
Printing a Limited Edition Print for a collector.
"Buy Jupiter".
Done! :)
21st
"THE VIEW FROM THE STUDIO"
Actually . . . . . ,
More like what's on my mind, this morning.
I have to go out and . . . .
and there's a howling gale!
I will focus on the Snow drops
and try not to get blown over.
20th
"THE VIEW FROM THE STUDIO"
The Wheel of The Year,
As winter passes, it offers visual stimulus that will soon disappear.
The images of spring will then be with us.
19th
"THE VIEW FROM THE STUDIO"
He's definitely happy that the tree is budding!
He's looking forward to some warmer days :)
18th
"THE VIEW FROM THE STUDIO"
First signs of Spring coming.
The Garden's residents are happy :)
17th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 4 of 4
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
If you ever ask yourself “how do I make a good adaptation?”, here’s a good example: keep what’s good in the original, modify what’s good and could be even better, remove what’s bad and add what you think will make it better.
The hard part about PAJ’s art is finding any weaknesses!
16th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 3 of 4
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
The cover art for the 1st edition of “The Warlock of Firetop Mountain” was already something surprising and revolutionary, as Peter Andrew Jones was asked to do. In the board version of the game, the artist managed to give the public the best example of what an adaptation asks for: keeping the original, but modifying it. This paradox was masterfully produced by keeping the mysterious conjured dragon in the background, but now the wizard is standing and in combat position instead of sitting. If in the gamebook he seemed to be waiting for the reader-player to show his power, on the board he doesn’t seem to have as much patience with the player, and wants to convey the image of a wizard who won’t give anyone a chance.
15th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 2 of 4
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
As we know from history, cover art has been responsible for the reader’s first contact with a book, and fantasy and science fiction literature sometimes featured art that was aimed solely at children. Peter Andrew Jones and many other renowned artists have done a magnificent service to gamebooks with their impactful, sometimes provocative artwork for an entire generation of readers-players.
14th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 1 of 4
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
Considered the world’s first gamebook, “The Warlock of Firetop Mountain” is certainly the most reviewed, commented on and enjoyed gamebook by readers-players around the world. It opened doors for the very series it led – “Fighting Fantasy” – as well as inspiring so many other successful ones, such as “Lone Wolf”, “Falcon”, “The Way of the Tiger”, and so many others. Even today, with literary gamebooks and legacy mechanics, its super-simple rule system still shows inspiration and the narrative organization in hyperlinks is something that hardly don’t surprises a neophyte reader.
13th
"THE DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVE"
The BLACK PYRAMID.
The Legends of Skyfall.
More detail, and history, in the upcoming Spring Magazine.
12th
"THE DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVE"
Produces . . . . .
The BLACK PYRAMID.
11th
"ANOTHER DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVE"
Guess the title . . . . .
10th
"ANSWERS FROM THE ARCHIVE"
SAGA OF THE DEMONSPAWN
book series by J. H. Brennan.
Having now delved into ancient (and very, very faded paperwork!) we are now able to answer questions put to us by a professor of history about exactly how (and when) I created these artworks for Edizioni E, Elle in Triest, in 1992, for Brennan's Saga of The Demonspawn series.
It'll be fun, when we include it as a section of this Spring's magazine issue, to recall exactly the creative process I used back then, and compare it with techniques I use currently.
9th
"A DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVE"
IL BARBARO RIBELLE
by J. H. Brennan.
Further researching archive records, to be able to answer a question from a professor of history concerning works I created for Edizioni E, Elle in Triest.
One puzzling attribute, is why I created the painting (and another in the series) much taller than needed for the cover of the book(s)?
Perhaps a delve into ancient paperwork might solve the puzzle . . . . .
8th
"A DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVE"
IL BARBARO RIBELLE
by J. H. Brennan.
Still researching archive records, to be able to answer a question from a professor of history concerning works I created for Edizioni E, Elle in Triest.
7th
"A DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVE"
IL BARBARO RIBELLE
by J. H. Brennan.
Today, researching old archive records, to answer a question from a professor of history concerning works I created for Edizioni E, Elle in Triest.
6th
"THIS TIME TEN YEARS AGO"
A decade ago . . .
We began creating volume 2 of Solar Wind.
To celebrate, we are carrying out one of our periodic reviews, to ensure "technology" is not interfering with our current printing thereof.
"Upgrades" in programs are often "unhelpful" so we like to double-check.
For me, 100% quality of production is mandatory!
5th
"THIS TIME TEN YEARS AGO"
A decade ago . . .
We began creating volume 2 of Solar Wind.
To celebrate, we are carrying out one of our periodic reviews, to ensure "technology" is not interfering with our current printing thereof.
"Upgrades" in programs are often "unhelpful" so we like to double-check.
For me, 100% quality of production is mandatory!
4th
"THIS TIME TEN YEARS AGO"
A decade ago . . .
We began creating volume 2 of Solar Wind.
To celebrate, we are carrying out one of our periodic reviews, to ensure "technology" is not interfering with our current printing thereof.
"Upgrades" in programs are often "unhelpful" so we like to double-check.
For me, 100% quality of production is mandatory!
3rd
"THIS TIME TEN YEARS AGO"
A decade ago . . .
We began creating volume 2 of Solar Wind.
To celebrate, we are carrying out one of our periodic reviews, to ensure "technology" is not interfering with our current printing thereof.
"Upgrades" in programs are often "unhelpful" so we like to double-check.
For me, 100% quality of production is mandatory!
2nd
"THIS TIME TEN YEARS AGO"
A decade ago . . .
We began creating volume 2 of Solar Wind.
To celebrate, we are carrying out one of our periodic reviews, to ensure "technology" is not interfering with our current printing thereof.
"Upgrades" in programs are often "unhelpful" so we like to double-check.
For me, 100% quality of production is mandatory!
1st
"THE VIEW FROM THE STUDIO"
I'm not clear how it is he manages to get inside the hedge?
Likewise, how he then exits?
But he's there every day, so clearly, he's skilled at it!
31st
"LEGENDARY ART GALLERY"
In the process of organising a local exhibition.
30th
"LEGENDARY ART GALLERY"
In the process of organising a local exhibition.
29th
"LEGENDARY ART GALLERY"
In the process of organising a local exhibition.
28th
"THIS TIME LAST YEAR / THIS YEAR"
The Croci are finally emerging,
as is traditional this time of year.
After struggling to appear, they now are succeeding!.
So, the Garden's inhabitants feel secure now.
27th
"THIS TIME LAST YEAR"
Snow, and the Croci emerging.
This year, right now, the Croci are struggling to appear.
Climate change ?
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13th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 7 of 7
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
During the Second World War, Pratt was a military analyst for the New York Post and Time magazine. Later, he was a reviewer of historical non-fiction, fantasy and science fiction for the New York Times Book Review. In 1944, Pratt founded the literary supper club known as the Trap Door Spiders. After the war, Pratt’s mother-in-law bought a mansion in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, which became The Ipsy-Wipsy Institute, a place frequented by Pratt’s literary friends. Pratt was responsible for the creation of the “Fletcher Pratt Naval War Game”.
Pratt was also a founding member of The Civil War Round Table of New York in 1951. His best-known series, co-authored by De Camp, is “Harold Shea”. Several of Pratt's books were illustrated by his wife.
Some of the De Camp-Pratt books were illustrated by Peter Andrew Jones.
If the universes of the duo’s fictions are based on the mythologies, legends and literary fantasies of our world, who better than PAJ to introduce the reader to these worlds?
12th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 6 of 7
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
In 1920 he settled in New York and worked for a Staten Island newspaper and sold stories to pulp magazines, which were often foreign translations. Three years later, he became a freelance writer. In 1926, he married Inga Stephens, an artist.
In 1930, a fire destroyed his flat. With the insurance money, he decided to study at the Sorbonne for a year. After returning from France, he was a staff writer for American Detective and began writing stories again. “Ordeal by Fire” (1935) was a hit with the public. From 1937, Pratt regularly attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont for the next 18 years.
11th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 5 of 7
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
Murray Fletcher Pratt was born on 25 April 1897 near Tonawanda, New York, and died on 10 June 1956. He was an American writer of history, science fiction and fantasy. He is best known for his works on naval history and the American Civil War. His parents were Robert M. and Alice Horton Pratt.
Pratt attended public schools in Buffalo and graduated from high school in 1915 at the Griffith Institute in Springville, New York. He then attended Hobart College in Geneva, New York, for just one year.
10th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 4 of 7
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
De Camp was one of the founding members of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers’ Guild of America (SAGA) in the 1960s, an informal group of heroic fantasy writers led by Lin Carter. Also in this decade, De Camp revived the cloak & dagger genre with his editorial work to continue the Conan the Barbarian cycle, and with the editing of heroic fantasy anthologies. De Camp also wrote non-fiction radio scripts for Voice of America.
De Camp (with Willy Ley) won the International Fantasy Award in 1953. With “Lands Beyond” (1952), he was guest of honour at the “World Science Fiction Convention” in 1966, named the third “Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy” in 1976, named “4th SFWA Grand Master” by the ‘Science Fiction Writers of America’ in 1979, won the “World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement” in 1984, the “Special Achievement Sidewise Award for Alternate History” in 1996 and the “Hugo Award for Nonfiction” in 1997 with “Time and Chance”. As a posthumous award, in April 2011 De Camp was selected for inclusion in the “Pantheon of Skeptics” promoted by the “Committee for Skeptical Inquiry” (CSI).
9th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 3 of 7
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
De Camp’s article “Design for Life”, published in the May 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, credited him with being the first person to use the term “extraterrestrial” not as an adjective, but as a noun.
During the Second World War, De Camp worked as a researcher at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, and was joined by other future science fiction immortals such as Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. De Camp was later the model for Isaac Asimov’s character “Geoffrey Avalon”. A highly rational and logical person, De Camp was often disturbed by what he considered to be logical lapses and absurdities in the writings of others, which may have limited his creative exploration in his works. As a writer, De Camp was best known for his light fantasy, particularly in the Harold Shea and Gavagan’s Bar stories.
8th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 2 of 7
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
A genial young man, De Camp studied at Trinity School in New York and then at Snyder School in North Carolina to improve his arrogance and discipline. Clumsy and thin, he was often bullied by his classmates.
In higher education, De Camp graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a degree in aeronautical engineering. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech in 1930 and a Master of Science in Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1933.
After working for a while in patent companies, he resigned in 1937. His first published story was “The Isolinguals”, in the September 1937 issue of “Astounding Science Fiction”. His first book was “Inventions and Their Management”, in the same year, written in partnership with Alf K. Berle. Two years later, De Camp married Catherine Crook, co-author of some of his publications. Two children were born to them. He also co-published with his long-time friend Fletcher Pratt.
7th
"0 BLOG DO ESTUDIO"
Blog article 1 of 7
by Pedro Panhoca.
http://www.peterandrewjones.net/blog-sa2025.htm.
Lyon Sprague De Camp was born on 27 November 1907 in New York and died on 6 November 2000 in Plano/Texas: He was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction, with more than 100 published books. De Camp wrote works examining society, history, technology and myth. De Camp’s science fiction is marked by his interests in linguistics, ancient history and the history and philosophy of science.
De Camp’s father was Lyon de Camp, a property and timber entrepreneur. His maternal grandfather, Charles Ezra Sprague, was an accountant, banker, pioneering speaker of Volapük (an artificial language from the late 19th century) and Civil War veteran.
6th
"THE VIEW FROM THE STUDIO"
Yesterday's snow,
turning warmer now,
slushy day ahead?
But no power cuts or signal failures so far :)
5th
"PAJMAG"
Celebrating 31 years of evolved publication!
Current issue launching next week,
and . . . back issues now available.
Originally launched in print form in the summer of 1994 titled "Solar Wind" and then became "Solvista" both created as client-focused informational guides
but also available to collectors of original art, it evolved into LEGENDARY ART MAGAZINE with a global distribution.
In the spring of 2024 it became "PAJMAG"
a very limited edition exclusive magazine.
http://peterandrewjones.net/LAM/index.htm
4th
"THE VIEW FROM THE STUDIO"
Yesterday's weather.
Awaiting the likelihood of snow by tomorrow . . . . . ?
3rd
"LIMITED EDITION FRIDAY"
Printing a Limited Edition Print for a collector.
"Knights of The Crystallion".
Done! :)
2nd
"LIMITED EDITION THURSDAY"
Printing a Limited Edition Print for a collector.
"Knights of The Crystallion".
Close-up
1st
"HAPPY NEW YEAR!"
Best wishes to all readers.
All the very best for 2025
