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  • Eye Candy for Today: John Berkey spacecraft

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    Up in Space, John Conrad Berkey Image is from this article on the always superb One1more2time3’s Weblog (scroll down in the article). (See my post on production designer Hans Bacher’s amazing blog here. If you have not visited this blog, I will issue a Timesink Warning. It’s amazing.) This painting is a wonderful example of…

  • Trove of John Berkey Art

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    I’ve written previously about John Berkey, the terrific illustrator known primarily for his fantastic visions of space flight, science fiction and future worlds. Most often, when you find references to Berkey’s work, it is to his famous and influential style of space art and science fiction. Most people, even those who are rightly impressed by…

  • John Berkey (update)

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    John Berkey, who died in 2008, was one of the premiere space artists. His distinctive style graced the covers and interiors of a wide variety of publications with visionary images of the future. Berkey had a wider range of style and subject matter than is widely known. Since my article about John Berkey in 2006,…

  • John Berkey

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    John Berkey’s name is one of two immediately associated with space art. Unlike the realistic, near-future projections of Chesley Bonestell, Berkey’s images usually portray a far-advanced future, glimmering with high technology ships, space stations and other-worldly constructions portrayed on a grand scale. His paintings can look photorealistic when reduced for publication or viewed in small…

  • John Harris

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    UK artist John Harris began painting at the age of 14 and entered Luton College of Art at 16. His interest in space, and the portrayal of the scale of large objects and distances, led him to illustration work in the science fiction and fantasy field. He was influenced in his early paintings by the…

  • Painting with casein paint

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    Casein (pronounced “kay’ seen”) is a water based paint in which the binder is the milk protein of the same name. Casein is one of the least familiar of the water based painting mediums available to contemporary painters, even though it’s one of the oldest painting mediums known. Casein’s use can be reliably traced back…