A guilty pleasure

This one is for my Dad. When young he was fan of Chesley Bonestell a very talented science fiction artist who, in no small way, helped initiate the space program. My Father was no mean draughtsman and inspired by Chesley drew many planetary landscapes and rockets and astronauts. These drawings were pretty good and, when young, I would leaf through them and would be, quite literally entranced by the other worldly scenes.
Now because it is no chore to paint retro space scenes - almost  a guilty pleasure, I'm going to do a series. I have at least one guaranteed buyer. I sketched out an idea below.  I would be pleased if I could capture even a trace of serenity and other-worldliness Chesley's landscapes give.

As soon as I've completed the industrial landscape I'm working on now I'm going to tackle this or something very like this. I can't wait. I'm tempted to put the rings of Saturn over Centenary Mill which will make it look damn stupid so I shall fight this temptation.

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