Sword of Creation by Scott Grimando

Title:	Sword of Creation
Date Created:	2010
Copyright:	© © Scott Grimando
Genre:	Fantasy
Mediums:	Photoshop
Views:	1008
Posted:	11/24/2015

Projects: Paintings available from 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, Haven Gallery, New York, Abend Gallery, Colorado, and Open Vessels on my website. And the Last Trump Shall Sound available now published by Caezik SF & Fantasy. Forthcoming How to Draw Fairies Book. Grand aspirations for an Artist Commune.

Location: Long Island New York

18 x 24 Varnished Ultrachrome Print. Heavily inspired by Boris Vallejo, when the model struck this pose I immediately thought that it would make a great Boris tribute. I've always drawn. When I was little I knew I wanted to be an artist, or I should say I knew I was an artist. I didn't always know what direction my career would take. In 1981 my father brought home a Boris Vallejo calendar for me. I can remember thinking that this is what I wanted to do. It was a defining moment for me as a child. The figures were so well drawn and realistically painted that it seemed almost incomprehensible that anyone could have rendered them by hand. Boris was incontrovertibly the best fantasy painter in the world and I wanted to be just like him.