Peninsula at Peace - The Arabian Peninsula and Mediterranean viewed from space

·•IMPERIAL EARTH•·

The

Space & Astronomical Art

of
Artist-Engineer

B·E·JOHNSON

Photographs That
Haven't Been Taken

 Paintings 


~ Collection I  |  Collection II  |  Collection III ~
Deep Ocean
Deep Ocean
"Down" to the sea in ships.
A New Horizon
A New Horizon
Back to the Moon!
Peak Performance
Peak Performance
Sure beats the ol' Cog Railway.

The Chabot Space & Science Center Mural  

The Origin of Meteorites 
Space Art
A digitally painted study first, then meticulously painted by brush and airbrush in acrylics on a continuous 26' x 4' (7.9m x 1.2m) canvas, depicting the wonders of the Universe where the different classes of meteorites found on Earth have originated.

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Space Art
SPACE

The Cover of James A. Michener's Novel

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Voted one of the
50 Greatest
Album Covers!
AND  
I got a Gold Record!
Space ArtNemesis
CD Cover, liner notes, posters &
promos for the Public Enemy CD:
Fear of a Black Planet

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Space Art
Peninsula at Peace
Detail

Book Cover for
"The New World Order"
Coca-Cola Space Can
Coke Float

Commissioned by the Coca-Cola Corporation to commemorate the flight of the first Space Can, a micro-gravity carbonated beverage dispenser developed for NASA.

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Reflections
Reflections

That which has gone before and that which shall come after, reflected for a fleeting moment in an Astronaut's visor at the close of the final EVA.

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Reflections of Future Passed
Reflections of Future Passed

An adaptation of the original,
painted for the Bicentennial 28 years prior.
 Workers Tending the Queen
The recovery of Columbia
STS-9 / Spacelab One
at Edwards Air Force Base.

 Detail
This original resides in the NASA/Smithsonian
Fine Art Collection.
A New Ocean - Shuttle Flying 'Under' the Earth
A New Ocean
The sun glint precedes you, sparkling on the Pacific overhead, as you begin another "day" in space.

Tomorrow is Yesterday
~ Acrylic
Star Trek Original Voyage
Episode 21
Shuttle Flight at Dawn Twilight's First Gleaming
Sunrise on orbit - sixteen of them a day. From a description by United States Astronaut
Joseph P. Allen.

Servicing the Hubble Space Telescope
Out Takin' Five

You are part of the care and feeding of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Miles To Go Before I SleepFinal Approach of Shuttle Columbia
Keeping a date with the Recovery Convoy.
Original painting resides in the NASA/Smithsonian
Fine Art Collection.
Stetson Hat
Stetson's Last Stand at Little Big Hat
If René Magritte had been born in America?
Space ArtPelagia
Cover of Science 85 Magazine and opener for the cover story: Other Worlds on the formation of, and search for, extrasolar planets and planetary systems.

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Cruising Trimaran
Closer

A very dear friend's trimaran, it's aft cabin lights aglow, close hauled on the solar wind of Zeta Orionis on their way to the Horsehead Nebula.

Arctic Tern
One of God's most accomplished aviators.
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Homeward BoundOutward Bound
Outward Bound
Homeward Bound

Perhaps one day this will become a common occurrence.
Space Art
First Glow of a New Horizon

For an article in Smithsonian Magazine on an experiment in directed panspermia; releasing the building blocks of life into an extrasolar environment that has none.
The Big Bang
Let There Be Light!

And there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good:
And God divided the light from the darkness.


~ Collection II  |  Collection III ~