Secrets

This book is fantastic in more than one sense of the word. Picture after picture, sometimes dark and sometimes light, but which haunts the soul. I guess my three favorite pictures would be "Threads of Desire" which portrays a mostly naked woman up to her knees in water in a cave with glowing vapors providing a magical vision, "Stars of Heat" which portrays a semi-nude Freya surrounded by the corpses of the dead, and Fissures of the Breeze which is just too hard to describe.Near each image is a cryptic explanation. These lead you on, into the painting, providing a depth that I have not found in other fantasy art books (though this is my first book by Royo). For those who are interested in alchemy and the like there are many references, sometimes hidden, to the these concepts. Royo knows how to blend old themes with new ones, bringing the old to life in a new way.In the end, one gets immersed into the world of the artist, and the dark fantasies which make this a real masterpiece.

I fell in love with Luis Royo's art and started searching the web for everything I could find on him and the more I saw the more certain I became that he is absolutely my favorite artist EVER!! I picked out 6 books that I had determined would be the essential basic starter collection. This one was the first to arrive (although I had received the 2008 Calendar and was just awed with my first real images!). Now I am just totally IN LOVE with this man's work. After seeing this book and reading his words, I have selected another 5 books that really should be in any collection of a true fan. I cannot get enough. I intend to eventually own every book and lots of prints and posters and . . .

Almost all right-sided paintings are full pages and have a 5 star rate.On the left-sided pages are displayed some bw sketches.SPECIFICS:Page Count: 80Number of images: 66Small images: 31Half page images: 0Full page images: 302-page spreads: 5BW images: 29TEXT:2 page foreword1 page biographyTitle, size and year of each paintingComments on the paintings themeART:22 images: 5 stars12 images: 4 stars14 images: 3 stars18 images: 2 stars0 images: 1 starOverall: 4 stars

Of all of the Royo books I've seen, Secrets, Malefic, and Visions are the most spectacular. The women are absolutely gorgeous, and the level of detail and hyper-realism is astonishing! If you're new to Royo, buy these three books. They emphasize fantasy illustration (as opposed to the sci-fi themes of Women and the post-apocolyptic themes of III Millenium). The quality of the artwork in III Millenium is also very good, but it has a darker, more somber tone. I'd recommend avoiding Women and Conceptions 1. They don't even come close to comparing with the four books listed above, and don't reflect the exceptional talent of Royo as an artist.

Great Art . Book it self is good Quality and Print

This is one of my favorite books by Luis Royo. I am very happy to add this to my collection!

The media could not be loaded.  Paying $30 because the beautiful art in a book for pgs to look like this… never again

Great timing

Love his work would order again

nice product

Sehr schön :)

der mann ist genial, hätt ich noch ein bisserl mehr platz für bücher, tät ich alles kaufen, was da ist.schade nur, daß praktisch nichts in einem ansprechenden format existiert, 30x40 eben oder größer. träumen darf man ja. gilt für alles gleich, hängs auch überall an.r. p.