Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo is an artist who primarily creates fantasy pieces. He often works with his wife, fellow artist Julie Bell, who also doubles as a model in a lot of Vallejo's work.
Name:
Boris Vallejo
Aliases:
Birth date:
January 8th, 1941
Home town:
Allentown, PA
Country:
United States
Background
Boris Vallejo was born in Peruvia, but emigrated to the USA in his early twenties. He began painting at the age of thirteen. Along with his depictions of fantasy figures and scenarios - with an emphasis on muscular and athletic female figures - Vallejo has also painted a vast amount of comic book characters, including Rogue, Wolverine, Venom, Dr Doom and Ghost Rider.
Characters Painted By Vallejo
The following characters have been immortalized on canvas by Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell (list is incomplete) :
- Apocalypse
- Archangel
- Askani
- Beast
- Bishop
- Black Cat
- Cable
- Captain America
- Carnage
- Crystal
- Cyclops
- Dazzler
- Doctor Doom
- Doctor Octopus
- Domino
- Flash
- Genesis
- Hank Pym
- Hawkeye
- Hulk
- Human Torch
- Iceman
- Iron Man
- Jean Grey
- Magneto
- Mr Sinister
- Onslaught
- Professor X
- Psylocke
- Punisher
- Quicksilver
- Rogue
- Sabretooth
- Silver Samurai
- Spiderman
- Spiderwoman
- Storm
- Thing
- Thor
- Venom
- War Machine
- Wolverine
- Yukio
He has also painted numerous characters from film and television, including Buffy The Vampire Slayer and the cast of Star Trek and Star Wars. Works in other media include calendars, film posters and an in-progress Tarot card deck.
