Covers by Welker

Here are two of Welker's best known magazine covers. i took this on my (very old) cell phone, hence the low resolution. 

And here is a clearer version of the Amazing Stories cover i found online:

Metal Church ???

Yes, Gaylord took a job illustrating a heavy metal album cover in the mid-1980s.

"Near"

Birthing a Satellite

Below are G.W.'s notes for changes he considered making in this painting.

Launch 2

Below is a photograph of the original painting. It has some damage in 

the center that i tried to fix in the above version.

Launch

More of the deep "Welker blue" illumining a rocket's wake...

Space Wheels

The note on the original reads:

"Generation Space Ship" in VOYAGE THROUGH THE UNIVERSE

Time/Life Books