Space Art: How to Draw and Paint Planets, Moons, and Landscapes of Alien Worlds - Couverture souple

Carroll, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823048764 ISBN 13 : 9780823048762

Editeur : Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 2007

Synopsis

Artists have been imagining otherworldly landscapes for hundreds of years - but only in the past few decades have we an idea of what other planets and moons really look like. "Space Art" shows artists how to capture and create these vistas by combining the latest facts with traditional landscape drawing. Author Michael Carroll, one of the country's most distinguished astronomical artists, explains how to use washes and texturing, how to paint water and ice, rocks and geological formations, craters and alien skies. Fourteen paintings, building in complexity, are presented step-by-step, accompanied by NASA photos and the author's own photographs of mysterious landscapes much closer to home...Michael Carroll, a renowned astronomical and paleo artist for more than twenty years, has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in many magazines, including "Time", "National Geographic", "Sky & Telescope", and "Asimov's Science Fiction". One of his paintings flew aboard MIR; another is resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, aboard Russia's ill-fated Mars 96 spacecraft.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Space... the final art frontier... What is it like to walk through an alien world? Artists have been imagining otherworldly landscapes for hundreds of years—but only in the past few decades have we started to see what other planets and moons really look like. These exciting scientific discoveries have led to ever more "realistic" space art. Space Art shows artists how to capture and create these partly real, partly imagined vistas by combining the latest facts with traditional landscape drawing. Put the two together and the results are memorable, dreamlike, haunting. Author Michael Carroll, one of the country's most distinguished astronomical artists, explains how to use washes and texturing, how to paint water and ice, rocks and geological formations, craters and alien skies. Linear and atmospheric perspective, color, composition, color, value, and shading are also covered as they relate to showing otherworldly landscapes. Fourteen paintings, building in complexity, are presented step-by-step, accompanied by NASA photos and the author’s own photos of mysterious landscapes closer to home: Death Valley, Iceland, Alaska. For everyone who has ever wanted to travel to far-off worlds... or just show what they’re imagining... Space Art is a rocket to the stars.

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Carroll, a renowned astronomical and paleo artist for more than twenty years, has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in many magazines, including Time, National Geographic, Sky & Telescope, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. One of his paintings flew aboard MIR; another is resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, aboard Russia's ill-fated Mars 96 spacecraft. He lives in Littleton, Colorado.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823048764
• ISBN 13: 9780823048762
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible