Eon Works - Art of Dawid Michalczyk

Digital Art NFT

Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:02:40 +0200

I've made many of my digital artworks available as NFTs on Foundation. This collection features some of my best Sci-Fi, space, abstract, and surreal imagery. If you're a collector, feel free to check out my work here.

Green Cube 2 - new surreal artwork

Sat, 9 Nov 2024 15:01:40 +0200

This is the second surreal artwork based on the 3 preliminary sketches that are shown below the gallery image.

Green Cube - new surreal artwork

Sat, 9 Nov 2024 15:01:40 +0200

I got the idea for this image a few weeks ago and I really like how it turned out. It makes a pleasant and uplifting impression. I have drawn 3 preliminary sketches which are shown in the gallery (colored pencils and black ink, 15 x 10cm each).

Starry Evening 2 - new space landscape

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:47:40 +0200

Several years ago I made the first Starry Evening space landscape, and a few days ago I finished this sequel.

Cosmic Vista 2 - new space artwork

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:32:40 +0200

Cosmic vista 2 is a new space landscape I finished yesterday - a pleasant evening on a planet far away.

Beautiful pillows

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:24:12 +0100

In my Zazzle shop I now have many pillows with my artwork on them. They look really cool, I have to say. I also added more mousepads and mugs to the shop. Right now prices are 15% lower, but I don't know how long this will last.

Thoughts and reality - surreal artwork

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:43:30 +0100

My latest addition to the gallery is a new surreal work Thoughts and reality. I have also added a few space art sketches and updated the Introduction to backups for artists article.

A view from planet Xi7

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:24:14 +0100

I just added a new artwork to the space gallery.

Million light years away

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:09:38 +0100

I'm very satisfied with this space artwork. It ended up being better than I expected. I especially like the colors, the mood, and the simple composition that works surprisingly well.

Desert explorers - sci-fi artwork

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:16:35 +0100

Desert explorers is a new sci-fi image that I just finished yesterday and I'm very pleased with it. Actually, I plan on doing more sci-fi artwork soon.

Recently, I have done some improvements to my website by making the design more compact and user friendly. The changes I made make it easier to browse the gallery on laptop screens and other screens with similar resolutions. I do my best at making the website as versatile as possible. However, this is not easy considering there are several popular screen resolutions and odd rendering issues in every browser and operating system.

Did you know that you can browse websites in full screen mode? On Windows, pressing the F11 button on your keyboard will enter full screen browsing. On laptops this enhances the browsing experience as less scrolling is needed. This makes browsing my gallery in full screen mode more comfortable. To exit the full screen mode just press F11 again. By the way, the F11 needs to be pressed when you are in your browser.

Imagekind store update

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:29:38 +0100

I sell posters, framed prints, and canvases on Imagekind and Zazzle. Recently I have updated my Imagekind store where I have added more of my space artwork. Imagekind is continually improving its website and I'm impressed with their shopping experience. It's very easy to select the artwork, the preferred size, frame and paper type, and you can see all the changes in real-time. See how beautiful Starry evening looks like when framed, or how about the enchanting Spiky shore? Very cool.

Alien base scouts

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 18:45:25 +0100

I normally don't re-use the same designs in my work, but this time I made an exception. I like the drone design from my previous sci-fi image so much, that I decided to use it here as well, but this time as alien scouts.

How prolific were famous painters?

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:47:18 +0100

About three years ago I became interested in the productivity of famous and well known painters. I was vaguely aware that some painters were very prolific and that some did not produce a lot. However, I wanted to know how many paintings and drawings each artist produced.

After doing a little research I realized that the information I was looking for is scattered all over the internet and is often of questionable validity. So I decided that this is going to be a long term project and I will work on it when I have the time.

Eventually I researched over 50 painters but could only find reliable information on 33 of them. Furthermore, it's difficult to find information on the number of drawings many of these artists produced. In some cases I could only find a total of works created with no distinction between drawings and paintings. I'm sure the data I'm looking for is out there somewhere, but I could not find it.

Although I did my best to only use data from reliable sources, the numbers shown in the table below should not be considered completely accurate. Mainly because new works of art may be discovered at any time, and because some of the known artworks may cease being attributed to a particular painter in the future. Thus the numbers can shift either way. Furthermore, some artists destroyed some of their work and some art got lost over time. Therefore, we'll probably never know the entire creative output of any artist. The numbers in the table should be treated as an approximation based on current knowledge.

It should be noted that these numbers tell us nothing about the amount of work that went into creating the paintings and drawings of a particular painter. Some artists painted large and realistic paintings that were very time consuming to produce. Others painted in a style that required little effort. For example, the 19th century Polish painter Jan Matejko, painted a number of large and detailed paintings that were very time consuming. His largest painting is 426 cm x 987 cm (13.9 ft x 10.7 yd) and depicts a historical battle scene that took him about 6 years to paint.

Finally, I would like to stress that being prolific does not guarantee success. There is a myriad of other factors that influence the degree of success an artist can achieve.

NOTE: Although the readability of long numbers is made easier by using a separator, there is no standard separator in use. In the UK and US a comma "," is used to separate groups of thousands (eg. 5000 is often written 5,000). In other countries either a period "." or a space " " is used. To avoid confusion, the numbers in the table are written without any separators (except when quoting a source). Nearly all numbers are short.

Artist name (born-died) Age	Nationality	Art movement	Paintings painted (all types combined)	Drawings drawn (all types combined)	Additional information
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) 78	French	Impressionism	4124	530	Source: 1.
William Turner (1775-1851) 76	English	Romanticism	2550	32000	300 sketchbooks, 32000 sketches, 550 oil paintings, 2000 highly detailed and finely finished watercolours. Source: 1, 2.
John Sargent (1856-1925) 69	American	Realism	2300	?	nearly 600 portraits, approximately 1700 landscapes and subject illustrations of oils and watercolors; many drawings. Source: 1, 2.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 91	Spanish	Cubism	1885	12000	"The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000 (by John Selfridge), comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs." Source: 1.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) 80	Norwegian	Expressionism, Symbolism	1850	7655	28000 works of art, including 378 litographs, 188 etchings, 148 woodcuts, 143 litographic stones, 155 copper plates. Source: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) 73	French	Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism	1719	?	1529 oils, 190 gouaches, 102 pastels, 55 fans, watercolors, drawings, 200 prints. Source: 1, 2.
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) 58	French	Realism	1500	?	A small amount of his paintings was executed in collaboration with his pupils. Source: 1.
Jan van Goyen (1596-1656) 60	Dutch	Baroque Era	1200	1000	Was active for about 36 years. Source: 1.
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) 83	French	Impressionism	1200	?	plus pastels and charcoal drawings, and 150 sculptures. "Produced approximately 1500 studies on the subject of ballet dancers". Source: 1, 2, 3.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) 86	French	Impressionism	1189	?	About 2500 artworks in all: paintings, drawings and pastels. Source: 1.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) 36	French	Post-Impressionism	1012	5084	737 canvases, 275 watercolors, 363 prints and posters, 300 pornographic works. Source: 1.
Rene Magritte (1898-1967) 68	Belgian	Surrealism	1000	?	Source: 1.
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) 67	French	Post-Impressionism	940	?	"Cezanne worked in oil, watercolor, and drawing media, often making several versions of his works." Source: 1, 2.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) 37	Dutch	Post-Impressionism	862	1031	2181 works in total. Source: 1.
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) 82	Spanish	Romanticism, Rococo Art	700	1000	plus 300 prints. Source: 1.
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) 65	French	Romanticism	?	6000	Over 9000 works of art, including several hundred paintings. Source: 1.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) 44	American	Abstract Expressionism	363	?	Source: 1.
Jan Matejko (1838-1893) 55	Polish	History painting	300	?	plus "few hundred drawings and sketches". Source: 1.
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) 63	Dutch	Baroque Era	250	2000	plus 300 prints (etchings). Source: 1, 2.
El Greco (1541-1614) 72	Greek	Mannerism	137	?	Source: 1.
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) 61	Spanish	Baroque Era	120	?	Source: 1.
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) 56	German	Northern Renaissance	60	1000	plus "some 350 woodcuts and about 130 engravings and etchings". Source: 1, 2.
Georges Seurat (1859-1891) 32	French	Post-Impressionism	47	500	plus "several sketchbooks" Source: 1.
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) 43	Dutch	Baroque Era	34	0	"He left no drawings or preliminary paintings behind." Source: 1, 2.
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) 66	Dutch	Northern Renaissance	25	14	Source: 1.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) 67	Italian	High Renaissance	20	4000	"Almost 4000 sheets survive of Leonardo's drawings and notes." Source: 1, 2, 3.
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) 55	Austrian	Art Nouveau	?	3700	Source: 1.
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) 73	Dutch	undefined	0	2000	plus 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings. Source: 1.
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) 77	Russian	Expressionism, Abstract Art	?	1236	plus 38 sketchbooks. Source: 1, 2.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) 62	Flemish	Baroque Era	?	?	"Around 10,000 works of art." "Approximately 1,500 of his works still survive". Source: 1, 2.
Georgia O�Keeffe (1887-1986) 98	American	American modernism	?	?	2029 known works in different mediums. Source: 1.
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) 84	Spanish	Surrealism	?	?	1000 pictorial works. Source: 1.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) 66	German	Romanticism	?	?	Over 500 works. Source: 1.

Biotech base and biodrone

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:47:59 +0100

A remotely controlled biodrone investigates the lake area near the base.

Isaac Asimov quotes

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:41:16 +0200

A few months ago I read an interview with the famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov who passed away in 1992. I liked his answers in that interview, so I did a little research about him and decided to read his fourth (and last) autobiography - I.Asimov, A Memoir.

I just finished reading it and found most of it interesting. The autobiography is honest, surprisingly immersive, and quite funny at times. My mood often improved while reading this book because the writing is frank, insightful, and lively. Many different topics are covered, including: personal peculiarities, early days of sci-fi magazines, prolific writing, avoiding writers block, censorship, religion, politics, well known sci-fi writers and editors, and much more. Here are some quotes from this autobiography:

"I just work on the principle that of all the virtues gratitude (next to honesty) is the greatest, and that has helped me on numerous occasions in my life."

"As it happens, the vicissitudes of time have greatly increased the literary standards of my particular medium and I am very well aware (as I frequently say) that if I were starting today as a teenager, with only the evident talent that I actually had as a teenager, I could not possibly break into the field. It is so important to be in the right place at the right time."

"It's much easier to find reasons to consider oneself superior than inferior. But one is just the mirror image of the other."

"I never found true peace till I turned my whole working life into self- employment. I was not made to be an employee."

"The truly important parts of life develop slowly with experience."

"Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."

"After all, one meets so many phonies in the world, so many sleazeballs, so many people who lie and twist and whose word cannot be trusted, that one sometimes gets the sick feeling that life is a garbage pit in which people are rotting banana peels. Yet one honest man refreshes the air fouled by a thousand devious rascals."

"When I have felt depressed and unhappy, the only anodyne I had (since I have never smoked, drunk, or drugged) was to write. It was only writing that dulled my anxiety."

"Continued success at anything tends to breed arrogance, if you are not careful."

"Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes, indeed, but I was right and they were wrong and that made the difference."

"How does one become a prolific writer? The very first requirement is that a person have passion for the process of writing. I mean he must have a passion for what goes on between the thinking of a book and its completion."

"Being a prolific writer has its disadvantages, of course. It complicates the writer's social and family life, for a prolific writer has to be self-absorbed. He must be. He has to be either writing or thinking about writing virtually all the time, and has no time for anything else."

"It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help."

Vacation on planet Zicon

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:55:15 +0200

How about a nice vacation on a planet far, far away...

Foggy mountains

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:25:03 +0200

I recently cleaned up my whole artwork directory and thus reduced its size from about 60GB to 30GB. There was a huge amount of unfinished artwork that I thought I will get back to someday, but this rarely happens, so I deleted most of it. I also implemented a new directory structure for storing my finished artwork as the old one was getting impractical. As I was going through the unfinished artwork I found some nice pieces that I should certainly finish, like this space landscape concept dated 14th December 2006:

Celestial tide

Thu, 25 Jun 2017 16:35:33 +0200

Here is some interesting information about this space landscape for the technically inclined: the high resolution image consists of 27.388.800 pixels and 1.895.034 unique colors; the uncompressed bitmap file is 82MB; maximally compressed PNG file is 42Mb; there are 44.040.192 polygons in the landscape and two procedural textures; rendering at 6340 x 4320 took 30 minutes and 11 seconds on a dual core Intel I3-2330M 2.2GHz CPU...

Explorers

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:36:33 +0200

Alien ships explore the surface of a newly discovered planet by slowly flying above a desert landscape with patches of growing crystals...

I recently read some quotes by Isaac Asimov and here are two that I especially like: "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." And the second quote: "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."

Starry evening space art

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:40:15 +0200

Today I came across two interesting quotes by Carl Sagan that describe the size of the universe: For as long as there been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. And the second quote: The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding.

Alien monuments

Sun, 28 May 2017 11:14:11 +0200

Enormous alien monuments erected thousands of years ago by a civilization long gone. New explorers survey the area from the air in an attempt to uncover their mysteries.

Alien hunters sci-fi artwork

Tue, 16 May 2017 14:22:12 +0200

Alien hunting ships slowly fly above the snowy landscape while scanning it for creatures to hunt.

Outpost rangers scifi art

Tue, 09 May 2017 14:53:00 +0200

My favorite sci-fi art is from the 1970s to 1990s period. Perhaps it's because I grew up during that time, or perhaps sci-fi art was in fact better back then. Time will tell... A few years ago a bought a used copy of a book called Tomorrow and Beyond: Masterpieces of Science Fiction Art edited by Ian Summers and published in 1978. I recently browsed through this book and it reminded me how sci-fi art used to be back then. In some ways it was somewhat simpler, but the thing that is most noticeable is its calmer feel. Much of today's sci-fi art is excessive and has a restless feel to it. Perhaps this is merely a reflection of technological progression. Anyway, if you like old SF art books then this one is worth getting and is available on amazon.