Sci-Fi-O-Rama

November 5, 2008

Filed under: Art, Illustration, Sci-Fi — Kie @ 9:17 am

Colin Hay - The Embedding

British Artist Colin Hay produced many airbrushed SF book covers during the 70’s – Authors of which included: Paul Anderson, John Sladek, Ian Watson, Clifford D Simak, Philip K Dick and many more..
Intricate textures in a style not dissimilar to Chris Foss.

See more of Colin’s superbly rendered airbrushing here at his agency portfolio site: http://www.chameleon-arts.com/colin-hay/folio3.html

Scan Taken from Paper Tigers 1977 release“The Flights of Icarus”.

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3 Comments »

  1. Oh I really like this one… is it from the 80’s? I kind of has that look about it.

    Comment by SerKevin — November 5, 2008 @ 1:10 pm

  2. Hey – It actually predates the 80’s – late 70’s I think – I believe it’s artwork produced as part of the “Terran Trade Authority” – more on that here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terran_Trade_Authority

    and here:

    http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/TTABooks.html

    Comment by admin — November 5, 2008 @ 3:38 pm

  3. Oh it definitely was in the TTA books. I remember it from the “Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD” book I had as a child.

    Comment by Colin Peters — November 5, 2008 @ 7:55 pm

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