Multiple stories and the mystery of the mountain.

 

No.213

Look, Up In The Sky - No.214

 

The Echelon pictures often starts with a spaceship. It’s what gets the juices going. Actually, come to think of it, it really starts with the sky and almost always the same sky, the same blend. 

Sometimes I’ll make a secondary ship that may or may not be part of the picture or it will be part of a future Echelon picture. As you will see, I used both of these ships for 214, although the first one is rather smallish and I would like to use it in a larger context in a future image. And the second ship as you will see has been altered slightly. It’s all dependant on what serves the image story.

In Search of New Echelon

 No.132  The end dissolves into the beginning. The journey continues. The search is forever.

No.136 The Time Lens

 

No.137 The Device Divider

 

No.138 Virtual Controller

 

Elixir Machine

 

No.141 Elixir Machine

No.140 Video Game

I’m always thinking about old spacey cartoon shows I watched and psychedelic pop art I saw when I was a kid…..and still ❤️ when I make these. And at times some of the old Warner Brother (looney tunes) cartoons as well for some extra spice. Did not have a color TV back then!

The TWILIGHT of ECHELON book

 IS HERE!

Four Fantastic writers have independently explored the imagery of Echelon and have returned to tell their tales in Twilight of Echelon, published by At Bay Press.

The Pyramedic Spires and the Healing Visitor

 

No.143

No.142

ARRIVAL of Echelon

Coming to or going from.

 No.146

No.145

No.144

No.147 - Big City

 

As often mentioned, an Echelon scene will start by constructing a flying craft of some kind on a gradated sky. It’s a somewhat simple procedure of overlapping shapes and gradations and graphic elements that I find appealing. They often turn out quite abstract. 

Below is an offshoot image using craft, not necessarily an Echelon image, just something further abstracted.

148 Echelon

One of my favourites. Maybe because of the graphic element of the Morse code like dashes superimposed over the architecture. I think the flying ships are stellar! A few posts earlier you can see the design development of one of them. I often put too many elements in these pictures. It’s hard for me to be satisfied with simplicity. The top ship probably doesn’t need to be there but it adds a nice counter movement to the two other ships.

Wonder Stories

 

No.150

No.149

No.151 New Echelon

 Funny what can influence you when making art. I recently bought a Lava Lamp.

Echelon Dream - 152

Every once in awhile there is an Echelon piece that does not quite seem like a Twilight of Echelon image, so it must be a dream. I’m still wondering who or what is dreaming … and what does it all mean?

No153 Ahead of Time

 

Back in Time - No.154

Quite often, creating a new Echelon work starts with creating a new spaceship or Flying Thing. Then I build a scene around it. A ship will start as a simple shape or silhouette and I add just minimal features. They don’t get too involved as I am searching for a certain expression. Most Echelon works each have their own ‘new’ flying thing’ but sometimes I need to use one more than once, as in the Episode below. 

This scene below started with the large central looming object (which could be a ship or flying thing) but was created in tandem with the ground lines. Everything builds then forms. In this scene the ships were the last to arrive and were taken from a previous scene.

Teaser Taser Edition Is Blasting Through

Putting it in some form so it can be further transformed into a second state of being, the Twilight of Echelon teaser/ashcan exists on this plane. Limited copies are available through At Bay Press but be warned, there is a printing mistake. One page is printed twice and thereby taking the place of one page that is missing. You kinda don’t even notice it. Nobody else did until I thought something looked weird and pointed it out. At any rate, they will be printed again (I was told).

This edition is 20 pages, 6 x 6 inches, recycled gloss paper, fold-out front and back covers, all B&W and looks glorious.

It is still somewhat in the air on the books final size (7x7, 8x8)  page count (120pgs?) and form (whether hard or soft cover), silver printing on the cover possibly and the cover image my change. It is still scheduled for a spring 2024 release.

It’s been awhile…

 that’s only because things are happening!

A BOOK will be published next year of these Echelon Images plus many more that I do not want to post here yet. But that is not all!! There will be writing by authors, all sharing their unique vision of how this visual world speaks to them and how they describe it. AMAZING! Published by At Bay Press.

We originally asked 4 writers. Three of them have handed in their scripts. Sad to say the fourth had not, even after an extension, so we had to let them go and are currently seeking a fourth writer. If we can’t , then we will stick with the three. These being; Lovern Kindzierski, Blaise Moritz and Den Valdron!

I’m excited!

On an outside personal note, This spring saw the release of two new books/collections/graphic novels of my comics/abstract comics work through 2 different publishers out of Quebec. 

EPISODE 23 - The Eternal Chamber