Ciruelo Cabral

Buenos Aires (2009)

Gustavo Cabral (born July 20, 1963), better known as 'Ciruelo' ('plum tree'), is an Argentine fantasy artist^[1][2] whose work focuses especially on dragons.

Biography

Ciruelo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, suffering from color blindness. That would not stop Ciruelo who at age 13 enrolled in Instituto Fernando Fader, an art school, where he began his formal studies. He started working as illustrator at age 18 for a graphic advertising company, and soon after began doing comic covers. In 1987 he moved to Barcelona, Spain where he drew fantasy books' covers and inside drawings for Timun Mas, a publisher that specializes in the genre.

Cabral then widened his horizons and did work for companies around the world, including companies in the United States, Germany and Spain. He drew the covers of the Chronicles of the Shadow War, a Bantam trilogy written by George Lucas. He has also done music album covers, such as Steve Vai's The Seventh Song, and magazine covers for, among others, Playboy and Heavy Metal magazine. His artwork can also be seen in some Magic: The Gathering cards.

Ciruelo Cabral uses mainly acrylic and oil painting, but also a number of other techniques, including his famous and distinctive paintings on rocks, which he created and calls 'petropictos' (literally, 'stone paintings'). He has published four books with his drawings: The Book of the Dragon (1990), Ciruelo (1990), Luz, the Art of Ciruelo (1997) and Magia, the Ciruelo Sketchbook (2000).

His work is represented in the 2002 collection Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} D'Ammassa, Don (January 2003). "Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery", Chronicle 25 (1): 30.
2. ^ The book of the dragon by Montse Sant

External links

Ciruelo painting and signing at the Frankfurt Book Fair of 2007

• Official website
• Ciruelo Cabral at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Non Official Site (Spanish)
• Biography and Drawings (English)
• Interview (Spanish)

Videos

• El arte es la puerta (Spanish)
• La vida es arte 4/06/08 (Spanish)

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