Notice the logos on the right

Yes, this is a green site - click the logo and read all about it. Windpower supplies the electricity for our host. Pretty cool, huh? This is true of both Atomic Fly Studios .com and .net - either one leads to the same content.

We are also scanned and secured by SiteLock. They make sure our content and purchase pages are safe and mal-wear free. You can shop or download with confidence at either atomicflystudios.net or .com!

About Atomic Fly Studios

We are a small company that focuses on personal attention to detail. Although our primary focus is the creation and promotion of Mitchell Davidson Bentley's fine astronomical art, our abilities, activities and interests range far wider.

Atomic Fly Studios has written, edited, designed and published newspapers, brochures, press releases, promotional materials and souvenir booklets. Additionally, Atomic Fly Studios has created menus for restaurants, cover art for music CDs and backgrounds and CGI sequences for films. When it comes to editing, pre-press, layout and design work, there is very little that Atomic Fly Studios cannot accomplish.

We utilize a variety of industry standard software and we are cross-platform compatible. We are experienced in Adobe® Illustrator, Photoshop, and Indesign; the Microsoft® Office suite, Macintosh® iLife & iWork Suite, U&I® Artmatic Pro, Voyager and Vtrack; NewTek® Video Toaster SpeedEdit; Smith Micro® Poser and DAZ3D® Carrara as well as a multitude of plug-ins and smaller software packages that make digital production easier.

Highly skilled in a variety of artistic pursuits

Our skills tend toward publication in the form of writing (business, grant or creative non-fiction), editing (both text and video), graphic design, photography and teaching. The projects we work on range from fine art prints, newsletters, brochures, business cards and cover art to music, acting and pottery. We offer a variety of services and produce work for surprising range of diverse clients. We have served as publicists, grant writers, stage managers, set designers, editors, videographers and layout artists.

Bentley, combining astronomical art with psychology and history, received his M.A. in May of 2006. He now runs Atomic Fly Studios and does freelance videography and editing with SKS Video Productions.

McCormick earned her M.A. in 2004 with a focus on 20th century Art History and communications. She now teaches full-time at Pennsylvania State University, Capital Campus.

Co-Founder Mitchell Davidson Bentley, M.A.

Some of you who come here will already be familiar with my work, many will not. I have shown from coast to coast and border to border, though mainly throughout the Midwest or plains states. I have mostly shown at General or Literary Science Fiction Conventions and have been honored with several guest positions and won many awards. I work on a variety of speculative pieces, commissioned work and publications.

My work has gone through many changes throughout the years from oils to acrylics to digital. This may be a surprise to those of you who have heard me speak or watched me do demonstrations at conferences and conventions. At times I have maintained that I would never quit painting in oils or that using a computer was somehow "cheating." I have found that the exploration of media and the persuit of education has been the only constant in my artistic career. Because of that I have had to revise many of my opinions over the years.

Many of you may be familiar with the airbrush and texture pieces I did throught the 1990s, but as you will see, I have maintained my own style along the way. On this site, you will find links to information about our studio work, services and artistic philosophy as well as our music, acting and art galleries. You will also find links to slideshows, CGI and other interesting projects.

I am the web-master for this site, so please direct any questions or comments to the email found on our contact page... or on my Facebook public profile discussion area, which is devoted to that purpose.

Please contact me for permission to use any of my work. In most cases personal use is no problem and educational use is allowable by copyright law. However, public use and publication in any medium, including the internet, is prohibited by law unless permission is granted in writing. Most of our work is available at reasonable rates for publication, and high quality prints and originals are also available. Please visit our policies page for more information on rates, purchases and quotes.

Thank you for visiting, I hope you enjoy your stay.
Mitch

Co-Founder Catherine A. McCormick, M.A.

Our business represents the creative combination of skills that span decades. I spent ten years as a self-employed potter and arts-entrepreneur. During those years, I co-founded two pottery studios: Third Street Pottery in Harrisburg, Pa., and Penn Avenue Pottery in Pittsburgh. While in Pittsburgh, I had the good fortune to study at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild with Joshua Green. While I was there, MCG teamed with Slippery Rock University on a regular basis to sponsor workshops with such notable ceramic artists as Warren MacKensie, Paul Soldner, Ron Myers and Val Cushing. It is impossible to calculate the impact those workshops had on my artistic vision. 

I picked up a camera many years later while at Penn State Harrisburg and discovered a second love. My background in clay, combined with my formal education in art history at Penn State Harrisburg, influences every aspect of my photography. If I can find the texture, whether it’s worn stone or weathered faces, that’s what I’ll shoot. Someday, I’ll return to clay, but for now, please enjoy the photographs. 

In addition to our separate artistic endeavors, Mitch and I have been doing graphic design work together since 2000. I tend to be the business voice . . . while he pushes the absolute limits in artistic creativity. It is critical to good graphic design to have both. Artistic is great . . . as long as it serves your organizational needs. When I think it’s good . . . he finds a way to make it even stronger. We are a good team.

Let us show you what our combined visions can do for your graphic design needs.
Cathie