Space artwork, part 7
B. E. Johnson renders wonderfully detailed images of spacecraft (fictional and non-fictional). There’s a lot more to see on his website, check it out!
I’ve been interested in astronomy and space since I was a kid, marvelling at the art I saw in books and magazines about space, spaceflight and space exploration. I read everything I could get my hands on.
Perhaps one day I would go.
Now I do. Little did I know that I would become a space artist myself and inspire new generations to explore space. It turns out I am what I have termed a “method painter”, putting myself in the moment; in the place that I am painting in order to more richly convey the essence of what it’s like to be in space. Not only how it looks but how it feels.
October 24th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Long has my imagination been tickled by the realization that in space there’s no ‘up’ nor ‘down’ — a concept strikingly presented in these artworks. But I’ve spent my entire life earthbound and locked in a daily struggle with the forces of ‘up’ and ‘down’, so if those two directions were suddenly completely removed from my experience I’d be fantastically disoriented, and that would make me a very poor astronaut.
October 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
LOL — no worries, I’d be a poor astronaut too because I’d be too busy hanging out at a window and taking pictures (or daydreaming, or staring or thinking or writing or whatever) to be of any use.