Under the Sea

Under the sea sets always make a great location for fantasy drama.

William Shackleton

Life without Fantasy?

What would life be without fantasy? It would be a textbook.

Charles Courtney Curran — circa early xxth century

Fantasy Narrative

I'm starting to cross-post some images between here and Facebook, thinking people may be of two different audiences, with a little overlap. This way the images may reach more people than the blog alone, which is kind of the point of doing this sharing stuff.

This painting is sort of remarkable for it's time of approximately 1880 by Carl Spitzweg, showing fantasy in a narrative form (there's a specific character-driven story going on here).

Carl Spitzweg — fantasy painting — circa 1880?

'Twas a Dark & Stormy Creature . . .

Ray Harryhausen — Bat-Winged Creature

Fantastic

One of the more fantastic of the old Fantastic covers . . .

Phillips & Summers — Fantastic — Summer 1952

One of the Greatest

Michael Whelan—one of the greatest fantasy painters of our time . . .

Michael Whelan — Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass

Cover for novel by Tad Williams (DAW)

Ghostly Host on the March

This is a beautiful rendition of a ghostly host on the march. See, the idea here is that the lady in white can see the apparitions and they are in obeisance to her, while the warrior guy can't see any of the spooky stuff and — and — and there's a whole story here that you just need to go find. I'm not involved with this stuff, somebody out there is and can tell you about it (is this a book and a role playing game?)—I just really like the art, so it ended up in my image morgue.

Matt Stawicki — Dragons of a Lost Star — Dragon Lance