Category Archives: Space Arts

Space Arts, Space participation

The Dream Rocket Project – Wrapping a Saturn V with artwork

This article gives an update on the The Dream Rocket Project and their plan to wrap the Saturn V rocket at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama with artwork panels created by people (mostly children) from around the world for an exhibition in 2015: Washburn professor dreams big with hopes to wrap a rocket in artwork – CJOnline.com.

They are raising money for the project in a Kickstarter campaign. Currently they have $3,829 pledged towards a $12,100 goal with 17 days left.

Astronomy, History, Space Arts

Earth from space, pre-space travel

Space Arts, Space Models

Knitting spacecraft models

I’ve written here about modeling rockets and spacecraft from kits, in paper, and in LEGO. Another medium for space models turns out to be fabric.  Emily Lakdawalla, a senior editor and blogger at The Planetary Society, has posted recently about using plastic canvas to model scientific space probes:

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“Ebb, Flow, New Horizons, MESSENGER, and Dawn, all to
the same scale (about 1:50).” – Emily Lakdawalla, Planetary Society

She also wrote about using the Japanese Amigurumi knitting technique:

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NASA and the on-line crafts site Etsy had a space-crafts competition in 2011 and a number of weaved space items were submitted.  Unfortunately, Etsy took down most of the web pages displaying the entries and winners a few months after the end of the contest. I managed to find images of some of the items:

 

Space Arts

The space art of Jack Coggins

Here’s an interesting profile article of  the late artist Jack Coggins who illustrated a number of classic space introductory books of the 1950s: The Artist Who Made Spaceflight Seem Real – io9

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Solar Sci-Fi, Space Arts

Artist Stephan Martiniere talks about space and sci-fi art

Noted artist Stephan Martiniere gave an interesting presentation at the recent Starship Congress event in Dallas about the movies, artists and illustrators who drew  him towards science fiction and space art as he was growing up, about how he developed his skills and techniques, who his major influences were, and about the movie and animation projects he is working on today: Space Art – Youtube.

Martiniere’s talk was followed by the awarding of prizes for some excellent “speed sketch” works created during the conference by some of the attendees:  FarMaker Interstellar Speed Sketch Award & Auction – Youtube.