Chris Foss “The Martian Way”
Another example of Chris’s airbrush work, Scan Taken from Paper Tigers 1977 release“The Flights of Icarus”.
See more of Chris Foss here http://www.chrisfoss.net/or at http://astrona.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Foss
Sci-Fi-O-Rama
Chris Foss (2) & Elite
(Above) Another sample of Chris Foss’s uber cool space hardware design style. This Example is especially interesting as it shows Foss’s style at it’s most minimal and therefore abstract, and as with all of his work has tremendous sense of scale.
See more of Chris Foss here http://www.chrisfoss.net/
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Quick Addendum Sept 2009 – Note that the Elite Poster Below is actually by Philip Castle NOT Chris Foss !!
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Looking at this piece made me wonder how much of an influence/inspiration Chris Foss’s Art must of been on David Braben & Ian Bell’s legendary 80′s computer game Elite. Original 80′s Elite Poster featured below, It’s not another Chris Foss By the way, but in fact another Airbrush Legend – Philip Castle, more on him soon… (thanks for the tip Jim!)
Chris Foss “Travelling Cities”
“Travelling Cities” by British Illustrator and Sci-Fi Artist Chris Foss, used as a cover for “Diary of a Spaceperson” (Paper Tiger, 1990).
Chris Foss (born 1946) is a well renowed Sci-Fi Illustrator, much imitated in fact sometimes literally, see Tuner Prize winning Painter Glenn Brown. It’s fair to say Foss is a genuine visual innovator like Syd Mead or H.R Giger. In fact Chris Foss was also involved in the production of Ridley Scotts Alien, providing the space hardware Ying to Giger’s Bio-mechanical Yang.