Sunday 5 September 2010

MYTHOPOEIKON

Dragon's World paperback, 1976. © copyright Patrick Woodroffe

Cover painting for Three Hearts And Three Lions by Poul Anderson.

Cover painting for The Warlord Of The Air by Michael Moorcock.

Painting for Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.

"It is strange how we cling to the concepts of 'up' and 'down' when designing such machines. Surely these terrestrial attitudes will melt away once real ships are built for flight in deep space. But the illustrator is drawing for today's perspectives, and the book jacket must have a distinctly 'right way up' look."

Painting for Frederik Pohl's Day Million.

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