Illuxcon 2013 Weekend Salon

I am happy to announce I've been juried into the weekend salon for Illuxcon 2013. I am honored to be included with such a great roster of artists. I'll post more information about my participation as I get closer to the convention.

ATLAS FANTASY ART HOUSE

by

Armand Cabrera

I'm happy to announce that I am now represented by Atlas Fantasy Art House which carries the finest traditional art in the imaginative realism genre. I have 8 paintings on display in the gallery.

All of the paintings are oil on linen

Territorial Dispute  8 x 10

First Light Dragons Hall  16 x 20

The Strange High  House in the Mist

16 x 12

Mountain Stronghold 8 x 10

Outpost 16 x 12

Racing the Dragon Coast 8 x 10

Remnants 11 x 14

Ice Station 18 x 24

William Niemeyer is the owner and director of the gallery which is located in Carmel Indiana

ATLAS FANTASY ART HOUSE

246 W. Main Street

Carmel, IN 46032

317-364-0833

Illuxcon 5

By Armand Cabrera

Although I am still recovering from some respiratory infection I picked up, my trip to Illuxcon was a worthwhile one. I received very positive feedback to the work I presented at the showcase Friday night.

 I had fun reconnecting with some old acquaintances and meeting some new ones. 

  The best part of course is the art. This really is the convention for the best in imaginative realism. Many of the top illustrators and artists had displays in the main hall and there were many talented people at the showcase on Friday.

The Wilshires are building something special with this convention, which is now going into its 6^th year and I hope it continues to provide a venue for the best traditional work in the genre.

A couple of the people who had attended previously, told me they thought the show now has a higher ratio of artists looking for work. I hope they can keep the emphasis on being a showcase for traditional painting and sculpture and make it the place to buy imaginative art originals.

The paintings that were exhibited  are on my website and for sale along with some other pieces that I didn't have room for in my display at the convention.

Queen of the Black Coast 16 x 12

oil on linen

Illuxcon 2012

by
Armand Cabrera

I will be at Illuxcon this year and I will have a showcase table and around ten paintings for sale. Hope to see some people there and reconnect with artists from my old illustration and convention days.

I will give a report on the show when I get back Sunday.

Traditional Paintings

Some new paintings. Oil on linen

                                            Territorial Dispute                  8 x 10

                                           Exxplorers                             16 x 20

                                               Racing the Dragon Coast        8 x 10

                                             The Lookout                         16 x 20

Silhouettes

 by
Armand Cabrera

I like working on silhouettes as a purely abstract exercise. They're great to do when I don't want to draw something specific. I just make shapes and once I have a page of them I go back and pull what I see out of them like a Rorschach test. I refine them with the eraser tool  as they take shape in my mind.

With this set I liked the one on the upper left and had an idea for it immediately. I saw this pastoral scene right at sunset with these terrifying things in the air just as it was getting dark.

sunset patrol                                                                  digital

I isolated my design and started to flesh it out giving it some form. I then created a background for it from my own reference. This was one of those images that was fully realized in my mind once I saw the shape and it made the concept painting go very quickly.

Ice Station

This is another piece that started as a traditional painting that was finished digitally. In this case its an 18x24 oil on linen. The digital parts were created  in Photoshop and 3d studio max.

Marooned: A Step By Step Guide

The digital painting marooned was published in the book SciFi Art Now in 2009. John Freeman the editor was kind enough to create an eBook of the progression after I told him I had process shots and descriptions of the paintings creation. If you haven't checked it out, its free to view.

Some Things From the Vault

My goal with these paintings is to solve a problem of design, gesture, lighting, color or mood and  the subject is just the vehicle for the painting. This work compliments my traditional painting background and allows me to apply my real world experience to scenes of imagination.A selection of these pieces are available as prints onthis page.

Corwin of Amber Digital

 Marooned Digital

 Take Off  Digital

 Fish Hunter Oil/digital

  Deep Space Outpost

  Remnants Digital

     Jump Rift Digital

   Mountain Stronghold Digital

 Strange High Houses in the Mist Oil/ Digital

       Robot Emissary Digital

  Cthulhu Digital

The Scout Digital