iredecent critters

the green enenemy tendrils seen above have a glowing qualitly i try to capture when painting my space clouds galaxys seen in the sky of my panoramic paintings it also looks see through at the same time its hard to explain

heaven and earth book

Far beyond the range of the naked human eye exists a realm of growth and symmetry that possesses almost haunting beauty. Microscopes and telescopes can plow this realm, revealing stars too far or particles too small for us to see. Magnified 115 times, kettle limescale blooms in flowerlike clusters. A single pollen grain magnified 5,000 times resembles a beehive fortress and, enlarged and reenlarged, a butterfly wing takes on the aspect of a field of warrior's shields. The Hubble Space Telescope captures the pillars of gas and dust of the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light-years away. In awesome color photographs, Heaven & Earth presents the universe in a grain of sand and on a scale almost beyond imagination.

 this book seems to have teh same veiw on micro macro looking at the beauty and detail in the very big and very small

rock formations

here are some of the images that led me on to the idea of earth being stranger than fiction you don't get crazy rock formations on other planets as far as we know these is the type of phenomenon that sci-fi artists would be re imagining to envision alien planets you just can't make it up.

mars

i would like to maybe do a few paintings as if stitched together digitally like this i love how messed up it is from sheer distance the data has to travel to earth

another awesome picture of Mars would like to incorporate textures like the ones seen on the surface in my own paintings.

Magic Eye

I always think magic eye looks like some kind of static from some gamma rays or something the static you get on your T.V. is residual radiation from the big bang I did end up using these patterns to describe some sort of sonic or psychic interference by collaging it into my painting buy im not going to show it in the exhibition its not very good worth another try though

I might make the focus of this project alien landscapes with a lot of influence from surrealist painters likse Dali and Max Ernst. I want to intergrate elements of Micro/ Macro in theses scapes using textures

Richard Powers' Sci-Fi covers remind me of Miro, Max Ernst and lots of other surrealist painters

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2008/06/cool-50s-sci-fi-covers-by-powers.html