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This was originally hand painted in 1999, for the July 1999 Popular Mechanics issue, Aliens-Fact or Fantasy?. It has been digitally modified to be viewed better. It basically shows lots of weird aliens of different species, plus flora. Gouache, and Photoshop 6 modified.
Alien World		 This is the first commissioned astronomical to be made digitally. This is the first of 2 very wide paintings, to be used for a toy display backdrop. The space toys will be shown in front of a 1' x 3' wide print of this art. There is no particular place depicted here-it's more of a fantasy astronomical. This is available as a very impressive 12 x 36 poster from Michael Berger. Photoshop w/Wacom tablet.
Blue Gas Giant		 The April 2005 cover of Analog Magazine, this is a view of Jupiter's moon Io, with the frenzy of volcanic activity due to the tremendous tidal forces from close proximity to Jupiter. Add to this the extreme cold of being far from the sun, and you have extremes of hot and cold. Available as a print from Podgallery. Original in Gouache on Masonite, finished with Photoshop 6.
Cold Fire		 Another digitally reworked painting for Gurps Space for Steve Jackson Games. This shows a hypothetical volcanic planet (torn apart by tidal forces from the 2 stars) in the Cygnus star system. Photoshop 6 w/Wacom tablet.
Cygnus Binary System
The third commissioned painting of astronomicals, for a toy backdrop display. This shows a binary sun system, of a red giant and blue dwarf. The dwarf's powerful gravity sucks matter from the red giant. The crystals were formed in the high pressures of the planet's surface. The whole scene is mostly hypothetical, in the tradition of my 'Legions of Power' series. Photoshop 6 w/Wacom tablet.
Forged In Fire		 This is the fourth of the commissioned astronomical series of space toy backdrops. This is an Ice moon with a ringed gas planet in the background. A lot of distortion filtering was used in this work. Photoshop 6 w/Wacom tablet.
Ice Moon		 A view of what life might be on Saturn. The rings are in the background. Oils on masonite.
Jovian Windriders		 A privately commissioned painting. Shows the Mars Pathfinder on it's brief 1997 encounter with the red planet. Water ice forms as a fog in the valleys, creating rainbows and halos in the atmosphere. Gouache on masonite.
Mars Pathfinder
Originally from 'Star of the Guardians' card game in 1994, done for a series of planetary systems. Gouache on masonite.
Red Mist		 This is the second commissioned painting of the space toy background series set of 2 works, done very wide to accommodate the toys being placed in front for display in store settings. This is another type planet, of flora, and a station added for interest. Photoshop 6 w/Wacom tablet.
Spiral Galaxy Station		 From the book by Greg Bear. Painted as a school project in 1981, then submitted and rejected by the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA for the Galileo probe project. I ended up working with JPL on the Venus Radar Mapper instead. This piece shows the Galileo probe entering Jupiter's atmosphere. Oil on canvas.
The Forge of God		 Unpublished. Neptune's largest moon, where pools of liquid and frozen methane thaw at -390 degrees F. Plumes of Nitrogen vapor mixed with dark particulate explode through the warming ice crust, where it was trapped under the ice in winter and warmed in spring by the sun's warmth. The ice plumes may create rainbows. Gouache on masonite.
Triton's Spring Melt

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