![]() ![]() ![]() Admittedly, this hasn’t been universally true: several of my books have few if any illustrations by me. ![]() It’s a lot of fun working on one’s own books: you not only get to write it you get to illustrate it, too. I had my first book published shortly after leaving the museum- Space Art: a history of space painting-and my 60th book will be appearing this winter. I worked for NASM for four years before leaving to become a freelance illustrator … which is what I have done for the past 40+ years. My wife and I soon found ourselves on our way to the nation’s capital. No, he replied, but it sounded like a good idea. Learning that the new National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC was going to have a planetarium, I wrote to the director, asking if they had any plans to have a staff artist. Much of my inspiration for doing this came from my admiration for Chesley Bonestell. I had always been a fan-for literally as long as I can remember-of both science fiction and astronomy so in my spare time I enjoyed creating realistic scenes set on other worlds. After graduating from art college (I have a BFA in Illustration), I worked for several commercial art studios doing illustrations for advertising. ![]()
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