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John Jude Palencar was born on 26 February, 1957 in Fairview Park, Ohio, US, is an American artist. Discover John Jude Palencar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 26 February, 1957
Birthday 26 February
Birthplace Fairview Park, Ohio, US
Nationality United States

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1957

John Jude Palencar (born February 26, 1957) is an American illustrator and fine artist, who specializes in works of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

Palencar was born February 26, 1957, in Fairview Park, Ohio.

He developed an interest in the subject matter of horror and science fiction early in life; dressing up as an alien with a homemade custom latex masks and exhibiting a fascination in both scaring others and being scared himself.

In the third grade, his family would move to Middleburg Heights, Ohio.

He would win his first award in art in fifth grade with a three-colour block print for the Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper calendar contest.

He went on to attended Midpark High School.

It was in high school that the artist came under the art training of Frederick C. Graff, who up until today is a established award winning artist, primarily in watercolor.

After winning numerous art awards and selling a few paintings in high school, Palencar decided to pursue a career in art.

1980

He attended the Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD) on scholarship, receiving a BFA degree in 1980.

During his college years he worked for the American Greetings Card Company and freelanced, establishing a list of regional and national clients in editorial, advertising and corporate art.

As a senior at CCAD he won the top cash award at the Society of Illustrators Student Exhibition and was also presented with a scholarship to the Illustrators Workshop held in Paris, France.

While still in college at Columbus College of Art and Design, Palencar exhibited work at the Society of Illustrators and the work on display attracted the attention of Byron Preiss.

1982

The result would be an early and prominent assignment for the artist in 1982 with the commission to illustrate The Secret, a puzzle book produced by Byron Preiss and published by Bantam Books.

The illustrations for the book depict the visual components of 12 puzzles, each of which lead the reader on a treasure hunt.

Preiss had hidden ceramic boxes, each redeemable for a jewel, in twelve cities and to date only three of the puzzles have been solved and the jewels recovered.

Palencar's first introduction to illustrating for fantasy and speculative fiction came shortly after college when working for Time-Life Books on The Enchanted World Series.

1984

The young artist would contribute to many books in the series, including Legends of Valor(1984), Ghosts(1984) and Night Creatures (1985).

His work has since appeared on hundreds of book covers for just about every major publisher in the U.S., and in over thirty countries around the world.

The artist has created cover art for such authors as H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Marion Zimmer Bradley, P.D. James, Charles de Lint, R.L. Stine, Octavia Butler, David Brin and Stephen King.

New York Times Best Selling author, Christopher Paolini, a fan of John's work, named the lead character's birthplace "Palancar Valley", after John in his NY Times Bestseller, Eragon for which John also painted the cover, as well as creating the type treatment that would be used for the remaining three books in the series.

Stephen King owns three works by the artist from the Dark Tower series.

Palancar has also created editorial illustrations for Time Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, and Nat.

Geo.

Television as well as worked on entertainment projects for Lucas Arts, Paramount Pictures, and Vivendi Universal.

2000

In 2000, Palencar became the Artist in Residence at the Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, in County Kerry Ireland.

2007

In 2007, Underwood Books would publish Origins:The Art of John Jude Palencar, a 128 page tribute to the artists work up until that time with a foreword by Christopher Paolini

2008

In 2008, Palencar was awarded the Spectrum Award for Grand Master, which is an annual award presented to an artist who has worked for at least twenty years at a consistently high level of quality and has left his or her mark on the field of contemporary science fiction, fantasy and horror artwork.

2010

In 2010, he was given the Hamilton King Award.

His highly detailed work is described as containing a rich language of symbols and archetypes, which are left open to interpretation by the viewer.

2012

In 2012, Tor Books editor David Hartwell was passing by the Tor art department and noticed a painting by Palancar leaning against the wall, Hartwell asked art director Irene Gallo what the painting was for and was told that the work had no specific commission.

Hartwell used the work to initiate The Palencar Project, in which five writers, L.E. Modesitt, Jr, Gene Wolf, Michael Swanwick, Gregory Benford and James Morrow all wrote short stories based on the painting.

The same painting would later be used as the cover for The One-Eyed Man by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

2019

The George R.R. Martin 2019 A Song of Ice and Fire wall calendar would be illustrated by Palencar.

Initial ideas are sketched quickly, to provide an art director with a general idea of how a finished work might appear.

Once an approval for an idea is in hand, the artist creates a detailed rendering in pencil with subtle shading on a plate finish board.

The final Palencar paintings are executed in acrylic, but in a watercolor fashion, in which initial thin layers are laid down as a wash first.

Multiple layers and subtle colors are then woven together and then the artists begins to introduce opaque and semi opaque washes.

Working in this manner borrows technical approaches from oil, watercolor and egg tempera mediums.

Palencar lives in Medina County, Ohio with his wife Lee.

The couple have two boys, Ian and Kit.