The work of Edwards’ Forest on illustrating books covers a large period of the artist’s work. Basically, these were pictures depicting all sorts of horrors – battles, bloodshed, rising from the graves of the dead, etc. This period of creativity by Edward Woods is called “red period”, referring to the abundance of gore in the paintings and calling it more Fresh work, like “Blue Period”.
Over the years, the artist has performed many works of fantasy genre and in the style of the horror genre, including numerous sketches for the history of Conan Robert Howard, collaborated with authors such as Anne McCaffrey, Frank Herbert, Jack Vance, and a number of others. Edwards is also known as the designer of numerous covers for fantasy and sci-fi books, including The Witches Caves, The Crypt of the Wizard and others.
On one of Les Edwards’ paintings of this series “Conan and Demons” depicts the battle of a brave warrior with evil spirits. Out of their graves and crypts, a myriad of dead men crawled out, attacked Conan with rusty blades and crooked knives. Disappear under the blows of the ax of Conan, like rotten stumps of the heads of some dead, their place is occupied by others and the end of the edge is not visible to this army of the underworld. But the invincible Conan never gives up.
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