The Fredösphere

I hope you all have run into Exclamation Mark by now.  This is a guy with an eye for beeeyotiful stuff, with a strong bias toward sci-fi art.

Did someone say sci-fi art?  I keep struggling with a way to express what this stuff does to me.  I look at it, and it immediately transports me to an alien world.  Call it Planet 1950s.

I'm starting to really get to know my way around that planet. I'm recognizing certain artists' looks.  Take this image, from the sci-fi art link above...



...and this one, from a page about the Rim Worlds Sequence.



Okay, that was obvious.  Same artist, same medium, same POV, same freakin' day, probably -- "Well, that wraps up that cover for Amazing Science Fiction Stories.  Say, I've got all these leftover teals and rusty reds on my palette; it would be a shame to waste them...."

Labels: sci-fi