Basic Information

Identity type

Male

Profession

Artist Illustrator. Cover Artist

Category

Tribute

Birthday / Conception

01/01/1907

About Me / Us / Company

He was renowned for his luscious palette and exciting action scenes, his sexy women and his ability to shoot from the hip when facing a deadline! Norman Blaine Saunders' illustration career was as big and successful as any artist could hope for, and no single genre could contain his remarkable talent. He painted them all - aliens and aviators, heroes and hunters, detectives and demons, quarterbacks and comic books, sex kittens and serial killers, westerns and wacky packs!

He was curious about everything in life, and his paintings were enriched with his detailed studies of people, history, science and nature. No matter where his visual curiosity led, he branded that world with his own dynamic design, playful skepticism and a solemn belief that life is tough. He was shockingly irreverent a nonconformist who laughed at the self-righteous and advocated the School of Hard-Knocks. He was a colorful story-teller and an innovative thinker, charming, insightful and fearless. He loved women, children and puppies, and he always cried when the hero died.

His own autobiography begins...

I was born in Minnesota on January 1st, 1907. My very earliest memories are of the eighty acres that was our homestead and the one room log cabin we lived in, my mother, father and I.

My father served in the 7th Calvary with General "Blackjack" Pershing in the Spanish American War. He became an ordained Presbyterian minister when I was seven we moved further north to Roseau County, where he had a circuit that he served and where he took on the added duties of County Game Warden, which included the American half of the Lake Of The Woods a tribe of the Chippawa Indians were there and by the time I was 12, was practically a blood brother.

Contact Information

Country

United States

Website 1

http://www.normansaunders.com

Education / Philosophy / Mission