Anne Brunsgaard did an outstanding job making her costume as "The Snow Queen." The feathers were awesome and the attention to detail was incredible. She clearly put a lot of time and effort in the costume and deserves some serious praise. Congratulations Anne!!
 Anne Brunsgaard's Snow Queen |
 Michael Whelan's Snow Queen |
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Here is a picture of her and the painting by Michael Whelan. Note the faithfulness of her reproduction.
The "Snow Queen" is a book by Joan Vinge. In the book, a queen is chosen for short period, then at the end of her term a masked ball is held. The Queen wears this feather mask. I won't spoil the book for you, but it's pretty good. There are several links on the web for it too. The book is available through the http://www.dragoncon.com website by following the Amazon.com web link - they'll get a bonus: or by going to any Internet or local book store
Michael Whelan did the cover of this book, as well as the sequel, "The Summer Queen." Other famous book covers include "The White Dragon" - By Anne McCaffrey, "Friday" - by Robert Heinlein, and "Songs of Distant Earth" - by Arthur C. Clarke.
You can see and purchase his work through his website at Glass Onion Graphics. You can also contact Glass Onion Graphics in the real world at (203)798-6063 or via mail to Glass Onion Graphics PO Box 88 Brookfield, CT 06804.
I once had the pleasure of meeting Michael Whelan at Western Connecticut State University when he did a lecture on painting commercially. He had a really funny story about a book cover he did with a wizard (I think) juggling on the cover. The publisher asked him to replace one of the objects being juggled - a space ship I think. He didn't like the suggestion, so he taped a piece over it and painted that. While being photoed for the publisher he took the patch off and had it photoed as originally painted too . A while later the publisher called and said there'd been an accident. They needed the painting photed again. Michael looked all over, but couldn't find the little extra peice with the ship on it. He told them his problem and they went to print with the damaged copy. Months later he took another painting in to be photographed and saw, there right where he'd left it, the extra piece taped to the wall - True story
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