The Julie Bell Portfolio
01/12/2002 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
Pub: Paper Tiger. 64 page coffee-table size softcover. Price: £12.99 (UK), $21.95 (US) and $31.95 (CAN). ISBN: 1-85585-852-5. Check out website: www.papertiger.co.uk
The companion book to the 'Boris Vallejo
Portfolio' reviewed elsewhere
on this website, this is a selection of 28 paintings from
Julie Bell's work in the early 90s.
Some of this work turns up in her later books but
certainly not at the page-size depicted here. If anything, it would be interesting
to see a second volume of selected Bell's work released in a similar fashion to
this for comparison.
 Of
special interest is the cover and interior complete picture of Lilandra
Neramani from the 'X-Men' comic mythology. Likewise, the 'Looking'
picture of a metallic lady looking at a startled reflection of herself
in a crack in her reality.
The
metallic look is carried over subtly with 'Robo Bird' to the sensual 'Golden Lover'
to the more playful 'Marble Master'.
In the introduction, her husband
Boris Vallejo points out that Julie Bell has a knack for painting 'metal flesh'
that surpasses his own. As their latest book has indicated by this review,
it's since progressed into other fabrics. If you want to see the evolution
of Julie Bell's work, this book should certainly be amongst your collection if
you haven't bought it already.
GF Willmetts 
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