Don Dixon is a Fellow and founding member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA). His artwork has been honored by NASA and the New York Society of Illustrators and has been featured on the covers of Scientific American, Astronomy, Sky and Telescope, Bild der Wissenschaft, and dozens of books, ranging from physics compendiums to science fiction novels. His painting Red Mars, cover art for the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's award winning trilogy, rode the Phoenix spacecraft to a successful landing in the arctic region of the Red Planet in 2008 as part of the Planetary Society's digital Martian Library.
He began his artistic career animating NASA's early missions to the planets and has been a guest of NASA at several space exploration 'firsts', such as the Viking 1 landing on Mars and the Pioneer 11 flyby of Saturn, for which he designed the mission logo. Like all in the field, Don Dixon was influenced by the work of Chesley Bonestell, who believed that scientific accuracy was essential in astronomical art. He stays abreast of developments in physics and astronomy by consulting with prominent scientists as he illustrates their latest discoveries.
Most early work was created in oil or acrylic paints. Since the late 1990's, his scientific illustrations have been created digitally. His private commissions and murals are executed with oil paints on canvas or Masonite panel.
You can seen more of Don's art at
cosmographica.com
Don Dixon joined Pixels.com Licensing on December 24th, 2011.
