About the artist: His link to the classroom
Mark A. Garlick, is a professional artist and scientific illustrator with a background in astronomy, specializing in space illustration, however to begin with Garlick was a freelance artist (Garlick, 2001).
Garlick addresses more than one component of the solar system. He has both illustrated and animated galaxies, stars, planets, nebular and even spacecrafts! As a result, Garlick has up to 160 space related artworks, illustrations and animations. Relating this back to the classroom as an educator, it is vital that we understand and respect all student's learning developments. In that, not all students will learn at the same pace. In saying this, having Mark A. Garlick as our inspiration artist will benefit students significantly. This is because, Garlick has has a range of different mediums, such as illustration, acrylic paintings and animations, in which we can tailor different activities to different students who learn differently developmentally.
In the beginning Garlick would only paint in his spare time. From 1995 and onwards, Garlick began to write popular science articles for magazines, but because Garlick was incredibly talented with acrylic paintings he was able to back up his articles with his own paintings he had completed (Garlick, 2003). Gradually, Garlick decided to focus on a full time career as a writer, illustrator and fine artist "specializing in the accurate depiction of astronomical phenomena, and balancing my scientific knowledge with an artistic sense." (Garlick, 2003).
Since Garlick started his freelance career, his space illustrations have appeared in hundreds of magazines, television and books. He has also expanded his repertoire in that he now produces illustrations of science fiction on dinosaurs and earth sciences. Interestingly enough, Garlick now works mainly digitally with producing his illustrations entirely from scratch in Photoshop (Garlick, 2003). With this emphasis to push technology into the classroom, with the inspiration of Garlick's work, this can ultimately enable students to explore a diverse of activities where space art can be created.
"Mark has a detailed and precise illustration style that also manages to be highly expressive. He is therefore a fantastic prospect for non-fiction artwork, which is the type of work we commission on a regular basis".- Simon Holland
Below is an example of one of Garlicks Computer animations showing the formation of the young Earth-Moon system.
He created this in 3DS Max, with textures made in Photoshop.
Mark A. Garlick, is a professional artist and scientific illustrator with a background in astronomy, specializing in space illustration, however to begin with Garlick was a freelance artist (Garlick, 2001).
Garlick addresses more than one component of the solar system. He has both illustrated and animated galaxies, stars, planets, nebular and even spacecrafts! As a result, Garlick has up to 160 space related artworks, illustrations and animations. Relating this back to the classroom as an educator, it is vital that we understand and respect all student's learning developments. In that, not all students will learn at the same pace. In saying this, having Mark A. Garlick as our inspiration artist will benefit students significantly. This is because, Garlick has has a range of different mediums, such as illustration, acrylic paintings and animations, in which we can tailor different activities to different students who learn differently developmentally.
In the beginning Garlick would only paint in his spare time. From 1995 and onwards, Garlick began to write popular science articles for magazines, but because Garlick was incredibly talented with acrylic paintings he was able to back up his articles with his own paintings he had completed (Garlick, 2003). Gradually, Garlick decided to focus on a full time career as a writer, illustrator and fine artist "specializing in the accurate depiction of astronomical phenomena, and balancing my scientific knowledge with an artistic sense." (Garlick, 2003).
Since Garlick started his freelance career, his space illustrations have appeared in hundreds of magazines, television and books. He has also expanded his repertoire in that he now produces illustrations of science fiction on dinosaurs and earth sciences. Interestingly enough, Garlick now works mainly digitally with producing his illustrations entirely from scratch in Photoshop (Garlick, 2003). With this emphasis to push technology into the classroom, with the inspiration of Garlick's work, this can ultimately enable students to explore a diverse of activities where space art can be created.
"Mark has a detailed and precise illustration style that also manages to be highly expressive. He is therefore a fantastic prospect for non-fiction artwork, which is the type of work we commission on a regular basis".- Simon Holland
Below is an example of one of Garlicks Computer animations showing the formation of the young Earth-Moon system.
He created this in 3DS Max, with textures made in Photoshop.
Here are some illustrations completed by Garlick. Truly magnificent.