L is for Long, Long Ago . . .

. . . in a Galaxy Far, Far Away . . .

. . . all this did happen wiv a furry monkey-manned and black dalekmanned and spacecars thats are bigger than a house and lectric swords wot sing shiny and evwy'fing, its really did, and it is TREW!

With apologies to Morwenna Banks as 'The Little Girl'

Well, as we've been having a contribution/space day, here's another of Jon Alderfer's pieces to finish a one-day mini-season! And what a glorious artwork it is, the composition is lovely, beautifully balanced, well thought out, and both managing to channel the original posters AND covering many more memorable scenes than any of them and doing it all without a - now-clichéd - light-sabre in sight!

From the slightly offset Star Destroyer at the top, a dreaming Luke torn between the light and dark of the two father figures, the four 'kids' flanked by two hologram scenes and two 'Escape from the Star Destroyer' scenes and then the two comedy pairs down the bottom, it's immaculately executed. Even the 'footballs' of security- and trainer-droid's neatly balance each-other.

The rendition of the holographic chess pieces and Leia's distress message are superb, Jon confirmed he does use coloured pencil; some items highlighted with felt-tips, but at this level I think they are referred to as 'art markers' and the technique is 'Pen & Ink'! And the faces, how does he get the faces? That's not commercial art, that's just art!

Stunning piece Jon; humbled, again, to have it on the Blog.

PS - why has no-one done a set of those chess pieces, they would make a fantastic group of 50mm-odd 'Little Rubber Guys'!

SF is for Space Farce!

Do you remember that fantastic Dr. Who Mount Rushmore that was sent to the Blog by Artist Jon Alderfer a while back? Well, he's had his coloured pencils out again, or at least I think he's working in a pencil medium, it's hard to tell from a scan of a print; it may be fine gauche or water-colour, but whatever, it's very talented work and it's a pleasure to carry another here . . . look to the horizon, there may be a third on the way?

Space Force - by Jon Alderfer

Isn't it fantastic? And I love all the little in-jokes hidden around the place, some of which I'm not getting, I'm obviously not American-enough! Sucka B. Flaunders obviously had the day off to recover from the last press conference!

If I have one criticism - using my years of experience as a world-famous art critic to go on - I'd say the pilot's hands are too big, I mean they're BIG, like, they're biggly-big, biggly-wiggly big, almost normal-sized! That's a Donald-fact - no fake news here!

Jon; thanks so much for this, delighted to host it!

M is for Mount Whomore...

It must be done...surely the next valley over? Further-up the range? And then the Simpsons!

Sent in by Blog visitor Jon Alderfer (who lives near Philadelphia in the US, has sold work to Heavy Metal magazine in the past and collects Disney, Dr. Who, Marx, and Britains [etc...!]), this is his own work and I'm privileged to post it here...talented stuff; thanks Jon.

Now; who do I see about hiring rock-drills...do you need a permit...is it in a national park....what will Smokey the Bear have to say about it...?