"One of the perks of working at Lucasfilm is getting to select a few pieces from Lucas' vast artwork collection to display around one's workspace. With Lucas Online's recent move into a new building with empty walls, the staff was able to choose from a collection of recently acquired paintings, illustrations, and photography to hang in and around the offices. As luck would have it, Terese Nielsen's original paintings for Wizards of the Coast's Legacy of the Force miniatures collection had just become available, which I and others immediately snatched up to display around the Online office.
Nielsen had first grabbed our attention with an elegant Padm? illustration she'd composed for Celebration IV, memorable for its decidedly Art Nouveau style and stunning depiction of the sultry blaster-packing senator. Padm? was soon followed by several more highly-stylized portraits of Star Wars denizens courtesy of Nielsen's work for Wizards of the Coast, who tapped her to illustrate the packaging for their new line of Star Wars gaming miniatures.
Wizards' latest series, The Clone Wars, is Nielsen's third set of three paintings done for the line, giving fans nine fantastic portraits of Star Wars characters rendered in Nielsen's elegant, carefully composed style. We asked Nielsen about her work on the Wizards series, and about the Clone Wars set in particular:"
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