Bob's ART du Jour

Hi, I'm Bob Eggleton and this is my painting and "life in general blog" but mostly paintings. Usually they're for sale. Anyway, if you like something contact me at zillabob@cox.net and ENJOY!!

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I am a Hugo award-winning fantasy/SF artist who works on both publishing projects and film concept work(such as Jimmy Neutron and most recently, The Ant Bully) but I have a passion for landscape work, small paintings and exploring the properties of paint. This blog will mostly showcase my "painting-for-the-day" as kind of a personal voyage. I'll also be inserting sketches,photos and ideas of projects I am working on, that I can, when I can, so look for those every so often(usually as paint is drying!)

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Farmer in The Sky....

I did this as a cover for the upcoming re-issue of this Heinlein classic. Done in oils, 18x24, it ISN'T a "painting of the day" so, it's not the price of those(that only applies to the smaller works). Anyway, this was fun to do, and I wanted it very landscapy and vast. In the book the sky was green but, green is not a good color for bookcovers, they say, so, I made it a more inviting turquoise/blue....and I think it looks better too!

posted by Bob Eggleton (Zillabob) | 11:27 AM

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

its a beauty!!!!!!!! really awesome Bob, got that great space colonizing feel. er... it would look nice on my wall too I bet.............



dave

10:38 PM  
Blogger Bob Eggleton (Zillabob) said...

Thanks Dave. I liked this piece alot, a real treat to do this kind of book.

10:51 PM  
Blogger Louis said...

I love your painting for this Heinlein classic. You captured it perfectly! Are prints available for framing? Thanks.

5:16 PM  

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