The Borisography: F

Although it is signed "Boris ©" no year is shown. My file is dated 2017,

From the proximity of the BT Tower in the background it is obvious that the park in question is Hyde Park.

This is the only one of the ads that I actually saw/noticed - its derivation from Antecorn/Daydream is obvious with Danielle Anjou being replaced by Julie Bell.

The image has been cropped just below Julie's name so Boris' name and, if present, the year are not visible.

This was painted entirely without a reference, which Boris does not like to do and rarely does.

The theme, the relationship between older and younger persons (maybe, parent and child?) is one that Boris has explored several times in the past.

Workman Puzzles (that's the same Workman as produces the calendars) have brought out a 26⅜" x 18⅞" (W x H) puzzle utilising this painting. However, apart from cropping the top and bottom of the picture they have also stretched the left and right edges to produce the horizontal format.

This must be something of a first – a Boris painting for a cookbook! It appeared in the book's Introduction.

For those that don't know, Bompas & Parr made their name with gelatine based products, hence the profusion of jellies in the painting, before expanding into other culinary areas.

My understanding was that this was intended for National Lampoon whose 15th birthday was April 1985 but I can't see that it was used by them. It was however used as the cover for the April 1985 edition of Heavy Metal who were celebrating their 8th anniversary.

It is the second version, featured in B3 and CD1, that is shown here. It would appear that the colour of the '8' has faded since it was originally published. When published by Verkerke the text was removed entirely, since it would not have been of any relevance to most purchasers.

Although the calendar shows a signature my copy is unsigned. I understand that it was painted in 2015.

As expected, the artwork was used for the month of July in the 2022 Fantasy Calendar.

The painting was used in the 2016 Fantasy Calendar.

The painting started life as a promotional piece for Nike. Unlike most paintings that are altered for calendar use this one is unique in that it has been modified to reveal more, rather than hide parts, of the righthand figure.

The painting was later included in the 2018 Fantasy Calendar as Earth's Daughter (but only after the usual adjustments, to hide potential blushes, had been made.)

CD1 was the source of the title (because the book itself doesn't provide any.)

This is the second of three paintings produced for the first three of Brady's Fovean Chronicles.

A copy of the painting was also utilised in the 2016 Fantasy Calendar.

The titles for First Love and Alone are interchanged on the CD.
Painted 1981.

You may want to check out The Splintering Realm for the cover of the second book in the series.

Genesis first appeared in X-Force #1 in 1991. Like many superhero characters, his backstory is so complicated that I don't feel inclined to add any more information.

Boris and Julie were commissioned for this piece but at the time Julie was unwell and was only able to draw the circular design in the background!

The trading card also gives the title as Hawaii 3-O. Assuming this to be a play on the name of the TV series Hawaii 5-0, I've assumed the last character to be zero rather than the capital letter O. (I'm aware that the name of the revived TV series did use a capital O but this wasn't until many years after (2010) both the painting and trading card were produced.)

The model for the main figure is Ron Coleman, once Mr Olympia, a personal trainer at Boris' gym and frequently a subject in his paintings.

Sweet Chastity is the innocent, pink-haired heroine of the eponymous strip-cartoon series in the magazine who, inevitably, ends up in a state of undress. For this particular edition, six artists (Boris, Julie Bell and four others) were each asked to paint a pin-up of her and this was Boris' interpretation of her.

The artwork is a black and white line drawing which has been 'colourised' - in fact the book, box cover and poster (the version shown here) all appear to have been individually colourised since none of them are quite identical.

This was, apparently, a controversial painting - presumably, the objectors have a curious notion of the anatomy of horses. (But they may have point: this centaur has two extra pairs of limbs (wings and arms) an extra torso and most of an extra abdomen so who's to say what other, hidden, parts are also duplicated!).

The painting was combined with Waiting for Pegasus to provide the composite image Pegasus at Dawn for the 2022 Fantasy Calendar.

It would appear that Boris drew inspiration for the design from his Day and Night and Light and Darkness pair of drawings.

A modified version was used for the centrepiece of the 2017 Fantasy Calendar under the title Passion Flower.

This painting is unsigned nor does the calendar give any indication as to who the artist was. However, I feel confident in saying that this must be a Boris, or maybe a Boris & Julie, artwork.

This was, apparently, a controversial painting - presumably, the objectors have a curious notion of the anatomy of horses. (But they may have point: this centaur has two extra pairs of limbs (wings and arms) an extra torso and most of an extra abdomen so who's to say what other, hidden, parts are also duplicated!).

See above for the front cover.

I assume this was drawn in 2010, immediately before Julie's post.

The painting was subsequently acquired from Hugh Hefner by one of his Bunnies who was responsible for having the lefthand side overpainted like this:

You may like to compare this with Tarzan, the cover painting for the 1978 calendar, with which this one bears a distinct similarity.

Although the painting is unsigned it did have a signature on the advertising hoarding where I first saw it.

The painting was digitally modified to produce Strife in the Sky for the 2005 Fantasy Calendar.

According to Wookieepedia the Forest Rancor is a subspecies of rancor found on the planet Felucia. It does not explain how a species of wild animal managed to migrate to a new planet in the first place!

I presume from the alternative title (Dorian) that the model is Boris' son Dorian.

The painting is neither signed nor dated but Dreamland tells us that the artist was Boris.

Boris and Julie intended the drawings as designs for a set of sculptures produced by themselve rather than through a third party. Ultimately they experienced too many hurdles and did not proceed with the project.

See Water for Boris' other drawing in the set. Julie's drawings can be seen in the The Ultimate Illustrations book page.

As detailed at Air the project behind the drawings, sadly, never reached completion.

The four horsemen/riders in question are, from left to right, Pestilence, War, Famine and Death and are better nown as the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. They are all correctly depicted on their correctly coloured horses (white, red, black and green) and, where specified, with their correct weaponry and accoutrements.

Quite obviously, this is the monster, not the surgeon. Also used as a promotional card for the Boris 4 set.

The different interpretation of the monster, when compared to the previous painting, would have been dictated by the magazine's previous charactisations of him.

This is one of several Boris paintings which are Conan book cover illustrations but which do not include "Conan" in the title, presumably for copyright reasons. However, I've also listed them under Conan the… anyway so head to Conan of Aquilonia onwards if you want to see them in one place.

Possibly the best of these (see In Search of the Great Horned Beast) I have seen only as an autographed poster, for which I am not prepared to pay $100!

The calendar image is signed 'Boris ©' in the bottom right. My thumbnail was made from the borisjulie.com version which shows slightly more of the work but is unsigned.

I do not know whether the painting has actually been altered or if Boris has painted an overlay to digitally produce this image but, either way, I imagine this version was made to avoid any copyright conflicts with the original publisher.

Greek mythology: The Furies visited vengeance on mortals who had offended the gods.

Julie Bell posed for the main figure in this painting.

Boris has done cover paintings for several of these books.