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| Articles about Sci Art |
| Playing Cards with Sci-Fi Art | | 2008-07-01 18:28:06 | | Olav from Norway pointed me to these interesting playing cards with sci-fi art. These cards were published in the early 1980s by Waddingtons (the set contained 32 cards). He trying to track down the artists who made the artwork and it was wondering if you know who painted them (except the photos and the ones from star wars). Unfortunately, I can't answer that question. Any suggestions?Below are a few playing cards with sci-fi art for example. To see full set check out this page.Link: Playing Cards with Sci-Fi Art.
| | By: Astrona - Space and Astronomical Art Journal | | |
| | David Mattingly Sci-Fi Art | | 2007-10-10 05:42:23 | | David Burroughs Mattingly is an illustrator and painter best known for his numerous book covers of science fiction and fantasy literature.About the artist from David Mattingly Illustration: David began drawing and painting as a small child, influenced by comic books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and a wide array of artists from Jim Steranko, to N.C. Wyeth, to Jackson Pollock. After high school, he attended the Colorado Institute of Art at Colorado State University and later transferred to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. After school, he worked at Walt Disney Studios, ultimately becoming head of the matte department. He worked on The Black Hole, Tron, Dick Tracy, Stephen King's The Stand and most recently I, Robot for Weta Digital in New Zealand.While at Disney Studios, David began doing freelance art. His first published piece was the album cover for "The Commodores Greatest Hits". His first sale of art for a book cover was for "A Wizard in Bedlam," by Christopher Stasheff, published by DAW Books. In 1983 he moved to New York City, and a year later across the Hudson River to Hoboken, New Jersey.David has produced over 500 covers for most major publishers of science fiction and fantasy, including Baen, Bantam, DAW, Del Rey, Dell, Marvel, Omni, Playboy, Signet, and Tor. For Scholastic Inc, David painted 54 covers for K.A. Applegate's "Animorphs" series, along with the last 5 covers for the "Everworld" series. He illustrated the popular "Honor Harrington" series for author David Weber. He painted the latest repackaging of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Pellucidar" books for Ballantine Books. He is a two time winner of Magazine and Booksellers "Best Cover of the Year" award, and winner of the Association of Science Fiction Artists "Chesley" award. Other clients include Michael Jackson, Lucasfilm, Universal Studios, Totco Oil, Galloob Toys, R/Greenberg Associates, Click 3X and Spontaneous Combustion.After 20 years of traditional painting, David bought a compute | | By: Astrona - Space and Astronomical Art Journal | | |
| | Chris Foss Illustrations and Sci-Fi Art | | 2007-09-23 18:57:23 | | Christopher Foss is a British illustrator and science fiction artist, best known for his sci-fi book covers. He has been one of the world's leading sci-fi artists, and his futuristic visions adorned many book covers and posters of the 1970's, and had a huge influence on his artist peers, as well as filmmakers. For more information check out the Chris Foss's official site. Here is a selection of paintings. More artwork can be found on the web but all pictures small or medium size.Art Book: You can buy the book of "21st Century Foss" from Amazon.com please use the link below. The book is a great compilation of Foss's work on Dune and Alien and on many other projects.Click images view full size: Link: Chris Foss's official site21st Century Foss by Chris Foss"21st Century Foss" is a collection of the work done by Chris Foss.To order this book from Amazon.com, click here.See also other books:Diary of a Spaceperson by Chris Foss.Twenty-First Century Foss: Dragon's Dream by Chris Foss. | | By: Astrona - Space and Astronomical Art Journal | | |
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| John Harris Sci-Fi Art | | 2007-09-23 18:54:34 | | John Harris is a British painter and illustrator, well known for his science fiction art and other work, such as landscapes and marine paintings. This is a classic style of sci-fi art like John Berkey.Artist bio from Tokarta.com: John Harris was born in London in 1948, studied painting at Exeter College of Art and graduated from there in 1970. He has participated in numerous exhibitions both here and abroad, occassionallly showing with such groups as the Brotherhood of Ruralists. His first one-man show was at Double Vision Gallery in 1984. A preoccupation with scale and atmosphere is the hallmark of his work and which has led clients such as Shell, Phillips Electronics, George Lucas and many others to commission pieces from him. Sir Clive Sinclair has in his collection, many large-scale pieces of his work. In 1984 NASA invited him to witness a launch of the Space Shuttle and record the event in a painting, the first British Artist to be thus honoured. That work now hangs in the Kennedy | | By: Astrona - Space and Astronomical Art Journal | | |
| | John Berkey Space and Sci-Fi Art | | 2007-09-22 15:45:42 | | John Berkey is an artist who is famous for his space and sci-fi-themed works. He created some of the early artwork for the original Star Wars trilogy. He has worked as a freelance artist since the 1960s, after an eight-year stint at a St. Paul, Minnesota advertising agency. He resides in Excelsior, Minnesota.You can buy the book of "The Art of John Berkey" from Amazon.com please use the link below.Click images view full size: Link: John Berkey online gallery at ArtOrg.info. This is by far the best gallery of Berkey’s paintings on the web but all pictures medium size. Photos and article.The Art of John Berkey by Jane FrankTo order this book from Amazon.com, click here.Book Description: Jane Frank examines all aspects of Berkey's work, with more than 100 color illustrations drawn from all periods of his career-including personal illustrations painted for his own artistic satisfaction. Berkey himself contributes an autobiographical introduction. His wonderfully facile style is the perfe | | By: Astrona - Space and Astronomical Art Journal | | |
| | Gennady Tishchenko Sci-Fi Art | | 2007-09-16 09:36:23 | | Gennady Tishchenko is a Russian artist, who creates paintings based on sciences fiction and space themes. Below just a few examples of the works that available for viewing on his website (ru/en). Some of these works are quite interesting, but all the images are microscopic size. Link: Gennady Tishchenko | | By: Astrona - Space and Astronomical Art Journal | | |
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| Spray Sci-Fi Art by Janez Jevnikar | | 2007-09-12 22:14:54 | | Slovenian spray artist Janez Jevnikar (a.k.a. Sprayman) doing sci-fi paintings in less then 10 minutes and he does not need expensive airbrush, studio, etc. Artist says: My studio is the street. I have worked with this painting tecnique since 1995. I use quicky drying acrylic varnish on a varnished cardboard, occasionally also on a Plexiglas and thin sheet. I also use a painting pad, paper, a sponge, pedestals and other material. Well, this looks really cool. See videos. You can find more about artist and his art on Sprej.com.Spray Paint Art 1: Spray Paint Art 2: Spray Paint Art 3: Link: Sprej.com | | By: Astrona - Space and Astronomical Art Journal | | |
| | Angus McKie Space and Sci-Fi Art | | 2007-09-04 13:44:09 | | Illustrations of space and sci-fi art, fantasy art, comics art, paperback cover art from the artist Angus McKie.Click images view full size: Angus McKie is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. He is best known as an English science fiction illustrator whose work appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction paperback novels in the mid 1970s and 1980s, as well as in Stewart Cowley's Terran Trade Authority series of illustrated books. His illustrations often present highly detailed spacecraft against vividly colored backgrounds and high-tech constructions. Like Peter Elson, Tony Roberts, Chris Foss and some other artists of the period, he influenced an entire generation of science fiction illustrators and concept artists. This lasting influence is probably visible at its best, about twenty years later, in the visual look developed for the Homeworld videogame.Official site: McKie Illustrations. | | By: Astrona - Space and Astronomical Art Journal | | |
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