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Aliens, mermaids, elves, animals, gods, I love to draw them all.
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Silverhair, some people think the eyes are always following them!
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Stoneskin woman.
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Jester's Temple, private commission.
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Guiding Light.
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Rainbow Mermaid.
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Sigri, a painting for my sister's cute daughter Sigri.
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Fairy Island, painting inspired by a trip to Norway, where you can find similar landscapes (however without the castle or funny animals).
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Magenta Moon.
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Snowcovered.
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Tiger, unfortunately done in black and white, should have done it in color but didn't have time. Done for a newspaper ad for the Sheraton Hotel in Detroit.
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Viking God Thor.
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Who can resist a good glass of champagne? Illustration for a card for a Dutch wine company.
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Butterfly Woman. Painting done for a woman who recovered from breast cancer.
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Mermaid by night.
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Little Wood Satyr, this of course is the moth which has beautiful soft silvery grey wings.
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In Dreams, illustration for University Of Miami Magazine. This was supposed to have a Maxfield Parrish feel to it.
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Witch, done for Settlelightsoft, a company creating computergames in the mid-eighties.
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Glass Tower, one of the early airbrush paintings. Really enjoyed doing the hair and "interesting" make-up.
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Shark ship, technically not really a creature but a spaceship, or aircraft at least. The monastery on the rock was inspired by a James Bond movie.
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Sleeping Birds, another early painting. I like the image, but what's the story behind the girl watching the birds???
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Three Little Birds, what happened to the third one? Was he pushed or did he fall? Maybe he saw a nice fish and dove after it, or ...
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Space Girl, The only brief was to have it be a strong horizontal piece! Nice assignment huh? I wanted a desolate landscape where the girl is checking out the surroundings after landing on an earth-like planet. On her way she's surrounded by -eh ...well, you figure it out!
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Below a poster project "Cry Wolf" for a discussion about the youth and the future of Zeeland (a province in the south of the Netherlands). The two alternate (not printed) versions are shown here as well. The project started with a black and white pen and ink drawing and was digitally completed with Illustrator and Photoshop.
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The chosen design for "Cry Wolf".
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Two alternate designs, I tend to like the mixed background colors of the one on the right.
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All images © 1985-2003: All rights reserved by Mario Baert. Any reproduction or distribution of the artwork presented here without the prior consent of the artist is strictly prohibited.
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