Inspiring Paintings

[Desdichado]

I guess he wouldn't be considered "fine art,' but man, there are literally hundreds of Frazetta paintings that inspire me in a gaming way. And in ways beyond gaming.

Beat me to it. I was going to say the exact same thing.

I guess I'll add Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth to the list, then.

 

[Tinner]

This one by Thayer is one of my all-time favorites.

 

[Warrior Poet]

Friedrich is always good for bundles of emotion

I've been looking for that image for a long time. Thanks!

I'll add another vote for anything by Frazetta, as well as more Boston MFA favorites: Rimmer's Flight and Pursuit (not gonna link it; as I discovered yesterday, I am unskilled) and Vedder's The Lair of the Sea Serpent.

Others: David's The Oath of the Horatii is very striking. Durer's famous Self Portrait at 28 is very "wizardly" in my imagining. Bosch frequently has that very dream-like, otherworldly, things-man-was-not-meant-to-know, lower-reaches-of-Hell sort of feel.

Good thread!

Warrior Poet

 

[Anson Caralya]

Another post thanking you for a good thread.

I have an illustration from my one published adventure (The Quicksilver Hourglass, Dungeon 123) hanging over my desk. Nothing like an artist's interpretation of your own madness for inspiration.

 

[Anson Caralya]

$#*%@ link didn't work, sorry:

http://www.joachimart.com/images/c_i_paizo-12.htm

 

[ColonelHardisson]

This is a link to the Frazetta gallery, where they sell prints. The specific paintings on just this page alone - and there are plenty others on different pages - that I like a lot, which evoke a mood of dark mystery, are - Sorcerer, Apparition, Berserker, Snow Giants, Egyptian Queen, The Silver Warrior, Man-Ape, and...well, pretty much anything Frazetta paints.

http://www.frazettaartgallery.com/gallery/HTML/prints.html

By the way, be warned: Frazetta's art often contains what I consider to be tasteful nudity.

Jeez, the page right after that one I linked to has a ton more good paintings - the Barbarian, for example.