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he continued to develop various painting and design skills through college, applying them to wildlife and portrait painting. he was a featured artist at many wildlife shows and had several one-man shows in conjunction with area galleries. while winning many awards and earning recognition for those works, the artist always retained his interest in fantasy, horror, and pinup art.
michael calandra strives to capture the essence of any subject he paints, whether it is the seductive look in the eye, or a classic pose, the artist has to communicate with the viewer through the painting. he bases the success of his paintings by their ability to emotionally move the viewer.
today, michael is incorporating the airbrush and coloured pencil into his current works featuring sensual women and depictions of the female form. he does freelance illustration and commission work from his home studio in sylvania, ohio.
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bild und text mit persoenlicher und freundlicher erlaubnis von jon beinart
after this unsatisfying attempt at college, studying greek and then english, sorayama's childhood affinity for drawing let him to japan's chuo art school in 1967. graduating in 1969, he was employed by the advertising firm asahi tsushin-sha in tokyo as a comprehensive illustrator.
he began working independently as a free-lance illustrator in 1972.
in 1978 he started drawing robots, and a year later, these female figures began to surface publicly. shile Sorayama's fine-tuned technique is superbly suitable for a wide range of subjects, his favourite remains the erotically charged form of a naked woman.
in 1994, he held his first one-man show in america at the tamara bane gallery, california. a special sorayama article appeared in the silver anniversary issue of penthouse magazine.
in 1995, he designed a mechanical warrior in a science fiction movie space trucker. in the same year, he secured a long-term engagement to publish art monthly in penthouse magazine.
hajime sorayama sorayama.net
