![]() ![]() Kerem Beyit, on the other hand, decided to embrace the old style of D&D and change it up a bit - making it into digital art rather than traditional. The text above is taken from Dragon Art by Graeme Aymer (ISBN 978-1-84786-300-3). I envisioned the dragons in Todd Lockwood’s style, one of the original Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) artists, which made each different type of dragon look unique. His work is phenomenal, and his dragon art some of which we were lucky enough to feature in our illustrated book Dragon Art cannot fail to appeal to any lover of the mystical. ![]() For the majority of my life, I have always loved art related to dragons, but it seemed no artist could capture how I envisioned them. The reason why I am so fond of Kerem’s art is because, in my opinion, he has captured the true essence of dragons in his art, and his detail in his other fantasy art is breathtaking. Graeme Aymer has been writing about creativity and design for over ten years for titles that include Computer Arts, Computer Arts Projects and MacWorld. ![]() ![]() Kerem has also been featured in the book Dragon Art by Graeme Aymer: a book featuring the best dragon artists of all time (a link to Dragon Art on amazon.ca can be seen at the end of this post). He is famous in the fantasy artist world and is followed by over 79,000 people on DeviantART (his page alone has gotten over 2 million views). He has done countless artwork in the fantasy realm ranging from card art to cover illustrations, character concepts to game art for World of Warcraft. One of my favourite illustrators of all time is Turkish illustrator Kerem Beyit. ![]()
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![]() ![]() God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved ( Harper San Francisco, 1988) is focused on abandoning a hopeless quest for perfection and accepting one is loved as one is. Her first three books were spiritual memoirs describing her experiences in contemplative Christianity, the last telling the story of her journey from traditional Christianity to feminist theology. She went on to become a Contributing Editor at Guideposts. She got her start in writing when a personal essay she wrote for a writing class was published in Guideposts and reprinted in Reader's Digest. She took creative writing courses at Emory University, Anderson University, and studied at Sewanee and the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. ![]() Kidd was influenced by the writings of Thomas Merton. She worked as a nursing instructor at the Medical College of Georgia. In 1970, she graduated from Texas Christian University with a bachelor of science degree in nursing. Kidd was born and raised in Sylvester, Georgia. Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948) is an American writer from Sylvester, Georgia best known for her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings. The Invention of Wings, The Secret Life of Bees, The Mermaid Chair, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story ![]() ![]()
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By Fredrik Logevall ( Random House 839 pages $40)Ī central issue in the contentious scholarship on the Vietnam War centers on whether American military intervention in 1965 was doomed to fail or had the potential to achieve its objectives. ![]() ![]() Thanks to three of today’s bestselling teen authors-John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle-the magic of the holidays shines on these hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and breathtaking kisses. Or that the way back to true love begins with a painfully early morning shift at Starbucks. And no one would think that a trip to the Waffle House through four feet of snow would lead to love with an old friend. After all, a cold and wet hike from a stranded train through the middle of nowhere would not normally end with a delicious kiss from a charming stranger. A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies. Goodreads Summary: Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons, and multicolored lights glittering in the night through the falling snow. Authors: John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle ![]() ![]() ![]() This brief encounter reveals that LOTE’s first-person narrator is Black in a white dominated space, something she seems used to, as she deftly deals with the power-drunk door boy “James.” We also learn that Mathilda is wearing “eBay lab diamonds, silver leatherette and lead velvets,” an almost-synesthetic description that places us post-Internet while leaving much to the imagination. ![]() Should you answer the call to research, you may find yourself becoming a version of the novel’s protagonist, Mathilda Adaramola, whose name the reader learns on the book’s second page when an “incensed blond twink” tries to stop her from entering the London archive she is volunteering in. LOTE is rich, in the non-sarcastic sense: Layered and ornate, the text is a luxury to re-read, tie-ing in, as it does, and so leading out, if you’re curious, into a vast world of research and observation, complementing specialized histories with contemporary realities dressed in clever analogies. Some of them-Josephine Baker, Virginia Woolf-may be recognizable, others-Ardizzoni, Sarah Montmorency, Luisa Casati, John Garreaux-may be less so, because they are fictional or niche-historic. 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When the Xebellian military plots to overthrow Atlantis and break free of its oppressive regime, Mera seizes the opportunity to take control over her own destiny by assassinating Arthur Curry-the long-lost prince and heir to the kingdom of Atlantis. But Mera is destined to wear a different crown. ![]() ![]() Her father, his court and the entire kingdom are expecting her to marry and introduce a new king. Princess Mera is teenage royalty and heir to the throne of Xebel, a penal colony ruled by the other no-so-lost land under the sea, Atlantis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The contrasting locations of his birth (the first six years of his life were spent in the multicultural and vibrantly bustling city of Bombay) and death (the rolling green, and quintessentially ‘British’, countryside of Sussex) epitomize the paradoxical nature of Kipling, the literary man. Rudyard Kipling’s life straddles the turn of the twentieth-century almost exactly, a period that also saw the British Empire reach its height and begin its decline - Indian independence came little more than a decade after Kipling’s death in 1947. Articles and poems that first appeared in the newspaper were later collected and published as Departmental Ditties (1886), Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), Soldiers Three (1890) and Wee Willie Winkie (1890) (Simkin, 1997). His father sent him to England to be educated at the United Services College, but returned to India in 1882 where he found work as a journalist on the Civil and Military Gazette. ![]() Joseph Rudyard Kipling, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, principal of the School of Art in Lahore, was born in Bombay on 30th December, 1865. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kitticut tells Inga that years earlier, when armies from the neighboring islands of Regos and Coregos attempted to invade and conquer Pingaree, they were repelled by Kitticut himself with the aid of three magic pearls. ![]() Prince Inga is the son of King Kitticut and Queen Garee, who rule the island kingdom of Pingaree. It is notable that most of the action takes place outside of Oz, and no character from Oz appears in the book until its climax this is due to Baum’s having originally written most of the book as a fantasy novel unrelated to his Oz books over ten years earlier, in 1905. ![]() It was published on June 20, 1916, with full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist John R. is the tenth book in the Land of Oz series written by L. Rinkitink in Oz: Wherein is Recorded the Perilous Quest of Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink in the Magical Isles that Lie Beyond the Borderland of Oz. ![]() |