Artworks
My drawings, paintings, and craft type projects.
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Some (Really Old) Drawings
I found a cache of old drawings, actually prints of old drawings, that I uploaded here to share. I can see how my style has evolved over the years, but my love of architecture hasn’t diminished. …
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The Third Expedition
Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Martian Chronicles‘ is one of my favorite books. Composed by taking several of his short stories and interweaving them together to create a long-view version of humanity’s contact with and subsequent colonization of Mars. Of the various stories, one of my favorites is the chapter titled ‘The Third Expedition,’ which was originally…
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Enigma VI {part 1}
The icepack cracked suddenly, reminder of the megatons of frozen nitrogen doing its inexorable slow march across Tombaugh Regio. The lander from Pluto Expedition VI stood safely on the granite-hard shelf of water ice overlooking the glaciers, its ultra-bright spotlights shining on a lone figure making its way over tumbled chunks of ice painted pink…
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Some Pen and Ink Drawings
I love pen and ink. Its my preferred style. I have recently started using Prismacolor markers for filling in spaces that I don’t feel like crosshatching. This drawing is called “California Noir” “Good Ol’ Ed” in honor of Edward Gorey: …
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Carl Sagan Portrait
I enjoy portraiture, though often they end up being more caricatures than perfect likenesses. This is a multi-format painting done with Japanese ink, watercolor, color pencil, pastel, and acrylic paints. The subject is Carl Sagan in the middle of speaking to someone(s). Here is our pale blue dot the Earth and in the foreground, Mars.…
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“Helluva View”
This is a progression view of a recent illustration of mine, showing the process from the under drawing to the completed piece.
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Some Recent Drawings
I’ve been working on several writing projects lately…poetry, short stories, and a big essay on the lyrics of Van Dyke Parks. In the interim I have also completed some new artwork. There are not enough hours in the month to work on everything equally, as my brain jumps from one thing to another so my…
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Yet Galileo Still Moves
“I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.” -Galileo Galilei
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U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men
As always, Three Laws Safe®
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Armistice Day
The sky is a wonderful blue and the air is just the right touch of cool for November. Southern California days in the lateness of the year are a pleasure – which makes this parade exhilarating instead of tiring. Armistice Day, 1924! We came back from France changed, my old self, dead. I hardly remember…
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Dredgings From the Sketchbooks
Sharing some of the things I have in my sketchbooks:
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What Really Happened…
Eve looked slightly suspicious, “You’re telling me that eating something as simple as this fruit would give me, and by extension, all of my decedents-the knowledge of good and evil; notions which at this point I certainly have no conception of?” Lucifer looked her over from the crown of her wavy brown hair, looked into…
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Some (Random) Drawings
I love science fiction. Love it. Alien life-forms, sentient robots, spaceships, huge Ideas with that earned capital I. The first of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books introduced us to the planet-city Trantor. This is a pen sketch that I did imagining a panorama of part of this world: I also love computer history, so combining that…
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R-102
This is an old drawing of mine circa 2006. Its a view of a fantasy city somewhere in North America, as a young man watches the (unbuilt) British airship R-102 flying out of a rain cloud.
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“Bradbury was right!”
Out of the sun came the flaming silver needles. Landing in amongst the fragile bone-chess cities, red sand kicked up hard into quiet pale blue skies, was a ship from the third planet. The men inside, grizzled and fuzzy-faced, looked out the portholes and exclaimed each in turn, “Bradbury was right!” The dry seabeds rolled…
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Apollo Guidance Computer
This is a pen and ink illustration for my History of Computers book for the chapter on early miniaturization. One of my cats took a swipe at it so I have to do some restoration work:
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Another Place
The skies were yellow, the rain more like a mist of diluted hydrochloric acid than water. As we walked over the small hilly rise, below us was the panorama of what used to be Washington, DC. The monuments had been mined for their limestone and great pits were dug into the National Mall. Miles of…
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Empty and Endless
The entire planet was covered in an intricate network of roads, the architecture familiar and alien at the same time…but nothing outside of the wind whistling through marble arches was heard. Empty, empty and endless.
The Numinous Cosmos 