"Eclipse 2012"
Poster art for Giclee prints. Astro Photography, illustration, design and graphics by myself. All digital, using Illustrator and Photoshop. We travelled to the center line and met another artist to photograph the eclipse with an F-11 scope and a solar filter.
"Green Gas Giant from orbit of its Moon"
Astronomical Illustration of a view of a green gas giant from high orbit of it's Moon.
"Star of David"
Astro Surrealism is a series of works I do where deep space, stellar and nebula are the canvas for an image. In acrylic on 4-ply rag board. The title and concept was a dream vision. The original has a special frame I also hand painted and is itself a work of art.
"Sacred Way"
Aself portrait. Imagined as an astronomical illustrator tens of thousands of years ago. We've been able to date astronomical events from cave and petroglyphs. Here a Moon-Planet conjunction is recorded in rare earth and fish blood that will last thousands of years. Not so primitive were the ancients. Acrylic on 8-ply Rag Board.
"Begins"
Archetypal forms in astrosurrealist form (my name for this subject type) . I started imagining this type of image when I was in my late teens. Years later realizing the idea in many paintings and illustrations. The model was a homless man who lived in the park down the street from us. His tools and equipment was stolen and he just gave up on the world. We would bring him food and other things he needed and talk about the world. I gave him a stack of postcards from my German publisher when I got them that were all over Europe at the time. I think he was proud and maybe felt better about his plight and maybe found a better life. I only hope.
"Quasar"
...or Quasi-Stellar Source. I just had to imagine proximity to such an almost mythical object. One of the most powerful objects in the known universe a Quasar puts out the light of a whole galaxy from a point no bigger than a planet they say. The most distant of stars that are not stars at all. Acrylic on Prepared Masonite.
"Giving Thing"
1 was an acrylic painting/illustration I did for a book published in Germany and England titled "Diologues with Scientists and Sages" by Renée Weber. The female hand here is a 3D model, and the male hand is standard acrylic illustration. The American cover was fairly bland but this was for the European version and it did quite well. Out of print but I got a first edition, in German, but I got the english version to read. I did a second version many years later, refusing to let this one be used again.
"Star Dust"
An Impossible object behind the Sun too big to be real. The God-like power of the artist
"Cyberspace"
Done for a movie poster back in the 1980's well before the hacker movies that eventually got the funding later. Just too early for this production by a brother team. They loved the image but the movie would never see light.
"Worlds From and To"
The cultivator is death and as the dust is turned new stars are made from the dust of millions of stars. Acrylic on 4-ply Ragboard.
"Gaia Light"
If you see the spirit right away you have a great eye for percieving other dimensions. The spirit of the Earth is a mother and loving one.
"View from the Belt"
Imagine standing on an asteroid as slowly a comet comes by. It is actually many hundreds of thousands of miles away but looks like it is not so far away.
Eclipse 2017
Traveling to the northern Oregon site with telescope, camera and camping gear was an uncertanty for any good sky because there were fires everywhere in the northern Oregon area. So as we were in the greater northern forests we passed through disconcerning sporatic smoky skies and obscured Sun. Great skys for sunsets but not for solar astronomy. Using maps from the US Forestry office we stopped at, we found a perfect spot in off road BLM land away from the thousands of people in the local area and with luck clear enough sky between the fires smoke for the actual eclipse. I've colorized the seperate exposures here I composited to ceate a more pleasing aestetic from the normal black and white astronomical photos we see while showing the beauty of the several minutes we had where the night creatures started calling out and making the experience the most wonderful eclipse we have ever seen. Astro-Photography and composite by Garret Moore.
Below you see the art for the solar event with the colors enhancing the moments of totality for 2017.
