Posts Tagged space art

Dark and Bright

Posted by Danielle in Picspam on October 7, 2011

Credits: NASA/ESA/ESO/W. Freudling (ST-ECF)

I couldn’t help but be captivated by this stunning space illustration highlighting ESA’s next science missions. Quite the “cosmic vision”!

The powerful influence of the Sun and the nature of the mysterious ‘dark energy’ motivate ESA’s next two science missions. Solar Orbiter and Euclid were selected today by ESA’s Science Programme Committee for implementation, with launches planned for 2017 and 2019.

These two missions are medium-class missions and are the first in ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Plan.

concept art, illustration, space art

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Saturn Beach

Posted by Danielle in Picspam on October 5, 2011

Space Beach 2, composite image by John Williams

My good friend John Williams made this captivating composite of space and terrestrial images. I love the combination of elements — spectacular space art!
Saturn image credit: NASA/JPL

saturn, space art

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Launch Fantasia

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on October 26, 2010

Illustration © Chris MacDonald

It’s about time we had some more wonderfully impossible space art, wouldn’t you say? This one is neat — love the monotone palette (via Weird Things.)

illustration, rockets, space art

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Impact!

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on September 28, 2010

Found a couple of interesting, new-to-me works by Chris Foss — unfortunately I don’t know the titles. The above ship looks like it ~~just had an oops~~ had a hard landing; below, a spectacular concept of a meteor impact. (Or maybe that was the ship from the first picture?)

concept art, impact craters, space art, spacecraft

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Distant Worlds

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Books & Literature on September 9, 2010

I know, I know, I have a thing for Soviet retro-futurist art… but you have to admit, these Soviet illustrations are nothing short of stunning! (Info and images via Dark Roasted Blend.)

Karl Gilzin’s book ["Travel to Distant Worlds"] (from 1958) contained some pretty neat illustrations … [b]ut the illustrations got even better once this book was translated into Russian, and some nameless artist from DetGiz Publishing House in 1960 drew these inspiring scenes…

I couldn’t decide what planet I liked best, so here’s Saturn:

And here’s Mars:

astronauts, mars, retro-futurism, rockets, saturn, soviet, space art, spaceflight

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The Space Art of Jeff Ward

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on August 24, 2010

Outer Boundaries © Jeff Ward

I’m always keen to find new space artists to feature here, and today’s discovery is the talented Jeff Ward. His work spans science fiction, fantasy and space/astronomical, and it’s all definitely worth a look!

Among the Outer Ring © Jeff Ward

I think this one here is my favorite ↓

Spiral Galaxy © Jeff Ward

fine art, galaxies, planets, science fiction, space art, spacecraft

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Alpha Sector

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on June 15, 2010

Credit: Jeff Michelmann, gucken.deviantart.com

Gorgeous piece of space art. That is all. (Found via CoolVibe.)

illustration, space art

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Porcelain

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on May 25, 2010

Porcelain, by Jakub Skorutowski

I couldn’t resist one more space art piece, especially since it’s named (and seemingly inspired?) by my favorite Moby song, Porcelain.

illustration, planets, space art

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Age of Discovery

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Computer & Internet on May 21, 2010

Age of Discovery, by Josef Barton

Had to post more space art, because this one is a wallpaper, and aren’t you just falling over yourself, running to download it? Because I know I was! Beautiful, Hubble-like softness — I love it.

illustration, nebulae, planets, space art, wallpapers

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Stunning Space Art

Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on May 19, 2010

Myriad, by Josef Barton

I was delighted when I discovered this collection of space art last Friday. My favorites are shown here (and linked to their DeviantArt file pages, so you can see each one embiggered.) Enjoy!