STUDY OF BOWIE | The Art of Michael Whelan

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Acrylic on illustration board
1978

STUDY OF BOWIE

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© 1978

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Acrylic on illustration board

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A man sits on a stone floor in lotus position with his eyes closed and his head back. Climbing out of his lap is a small white furred alien creature with beaded black eyes. The man is wearing a colorful purple vest with a high red collar. He grips a short sword in his hand as his forearm rests on his knee. Above the man, seemingly where his thoughts are projecting, is a blue clouded planet set against a starscape. A sleek needle-nosed starship is burning toward it.

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A ghostly man in spacesuit steps through a black obelisk with the recognizable face plate of HAL 9000 over his shoulder. The ground is alien and cracked. The horizon is a violent mix of rust and gray with clouds billowing up to fill the sky. A dozen other obelisks hover nearby.

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With a long shiny pistol in hand, a spaceman in black jumpsuit and bright red helmet turns in sudden surprise to see a hulking alien emerge from the mist. The bug-like creature is covered in green chitinous armor with spikes on its shoulders and over the dome of its head. Fangs protrude from its dripping lower mandible, but three pincer claws present the most immediate threat, easily within reach given the length of its extended limb.

A white haired man with curling mustache and firm jaw stands front and center in a line of uniformed soldiers. His white jumpsuit with red lapels contrasts their olive drabs, but he is clearly the alpha among them with a bandolier strapped across his chest, a laser rifle over one shoulder, and a sidearm at his hip. Gripping his leg at the knee, framed by the inverted V of his stance, a large-eyed fuzzy alien with amber eyes curiously peeks out.

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A robot stands in front of a large circular viewport as it shakes the hand of a humanoid. The crescent shape of a planet hovers among a starry field as seen tthrough the glass behind them. The wall is structured with metal supports and curves up to the ceiling where conduit runs. Grated deck plates run the length of the floor seen in the immediate foreground.

An army of Liliputian scale pulls on ropes attached to a giant red computer punch card, raising it to stand vertically. Hanging from the card with arms spread in a T is a man much larger in scale. He is dressed in a plain business suit. His head and hands dangle limply as if he is unconscious. To the right, a pair of rockets stand.

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A man stands on a rock outcrop overlooking a long road that leads through farmland and into a spiral that winds through a densely packed settlement. The tree growing out of the rock overlook has a spiky top. More foliage in the right foreground provides hints that this is an alien world. Three crescent moons hang in the sky. On the far left, the painting is oversaturated with a golden glow that sits over the water of a nearby bay and gradually blends into verdant green surrounding the spiral city. Winged creatures, much like aquatic rays, glide low over the fields and road.

An elderly man bound in a wheel chair sits with eyes cast to the sky. The white satin blanket trimmed in gold and decorated with stars and planets covers his legs. Visibly beneath it, his feet are set awkwardly askew, not firmly on the ground. Beneath a white suit jacket with a raven pinned to the lapel, he wears a black mock turtleneck with diagonal stripes on the collar. He looks stately as his arms are crossed and he props a vibrant red book in his lap. Beyond the platform where he sits, the planet has been transformed into a mechanized, futuristic city as far as the eye can see. Rendered in purples and blues, surface entirely metal. Topped by saucers of various styles, towers extend to a sky rendered upward in a gradient from pink to peach.

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