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

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

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    EAN: 9780823048762 SKU: WATSON-GUPTILLPUBLICATIONSINCUS- Categories: ,
    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.

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    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.

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    Manufacturer Watson-Guptill Author Carroll, Michael
    Brand Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S. ReleaseDate 2007-07-10T00:00:01Z
    Item Weight 1.35 Pounds ItemDimensions 8.55 x 0.4 x 10.45Inches
    NumberOfItems 1 binding Paperback
    Amazon Category Books » Arts & Photography » Drawing Amazon Category Books » Arts & Photography » Painting » Landscape Painting
    EAN 9780823048762 ISBN 0823048764
    Weight 1.35 lbs

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