OUTBOUND | The Art of Michael Whelan

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Oils on Primed Illustration Board - 20" x 15"
1974

OUTBOUND

Date

© 1974

Details

Oils on Primed Illustration Board

Size

20" x 15"

ORIGINAL AVAILABLE

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With face dramatically lit, a middle aged man looks of panel while holding a swaddled baby. The barrel of a futuristic pump action gun with pistol grip rests on his opposite shoulder. Beside him stands a young woman with straight blonde hair. She's wearing a black leather jacket and is cocking her head to look past him directly into the camera. Opposite her stands a young man also staring forward but his vision is lost behind futuristic goggles. A coiled wire extends down to a pack strapped over his shoulder. The background landscape is decidedly alien, a grassland with shallow water winding through it. A weeping tree rises behind the trio. Bark loosely winds around its trunk as if frozen in motion. Wispy fronds of green vegetation, made of tiny fern-like leaves, dangle from its branches. In the foreground left, an alien lizard climbs the bare trunk of a tree. Its mouth opens in a hiss directed at a futuristic blimp floating in the dawn lit sky.

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