Man: Siri, what is 1 trillion to the tenth power?
Siri: Calculation. The answer is one zero zero zero zero zero [continuing]
Man: *starts beatboxing to the rhythm.
Woman 1: *joins in*
Woman 2: *starts singing to the rhythm*
Miho Hirano is a Japanese artist living in Abiko, Chiba. She is a graduate of Musashino Art University. The fantasy world Miho paints is inhabited by ephemeral women who seem to be merging with their environment as their hair flows into flowering tree limbs, bird filled bushes, and drifting seaweed. Not knowing all the cultural significance of the natural world in her paintings makes it hard to truly appreciate her work, but it is easy to fall in love with the wonderful women and world that she has created. Miho Hirano’s work is in a group display at the Jiro Miura Gallery in Japan until August 15, 2015. Thanks to Hi-Fructose. You can see Miho Hirano’s portfolio at mihohirano.strikingly.com
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A cover for Mary Robinette Kowal’s Novella Forest of Memory, coming out in Winter 2016 from Tor.com.
The novella’s heroine Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients are rich and they demand items and experiences with only the finest verifiable provenance. Other people’s lives have value, after all.
But when her A.I. suddenly stops whispering in her ear she finds herself cut off from the grid and loses communication with the rest of the world.
The man who stepped out of the trees while hunting deer cut her off from the cloud, took her A.I. and made her his unwilling guest.
There are no Authenticities or Captures to prove Katya’s story of what happened in the forest. You’ll just have to believe her…
The title will be available worldwide in ebook, audiobook, and trade paperback.
Here are some of the editorial illustrations I’ve done in the last few months with a couple of personal illos mixed in! For this batch, thanks to ADs Len Small, Deanna Donegan, Erich Nagler, Matt Dorfman, Aviva Michaelov, and Martin Salazar. Thanks also to all the wonderful ADs I’ve worked with in the past year!
I have a LOT of news of some upcoming things I wanted to share. First off, I will be attending this year’s MONDOCON in Austin, TX, October 3rd-4th. They will be releasing my Black Swan album and Poster in addition to a screening of the movie.
In addition to that, I will have other prints of my work available, and even some T shirts! For that weekend you can also come and watch me paint a large mural in the main convention area! I’m super psyched about that.
Then, the weekend of October 9th I will be down in Florida at Ringling College of Art and Design to judge the student Illustration show and give some talks and demonstrations on technique.
Once Im back from all this, expect some prints of mine to pop up in my SHOP
