This is made to raise the question if there is link between comet and pandemy and fear.
Canvas panel. 21 by 30cm apx. Oil.
Thank you Felix. I think that course from MOMA resonated quite well with me. Topic about society was the most challenging one but was the most rewarding in terms of the questions it has raised in my head.
Tom, thank you! This one of the two when subconscious has spoken to me. It was like a strike after I was hunting Neowise comet for couple of days and at the end I won and I was sitting in the garden watching comet and few thoughts came by. Then couple of days later it striked as a ready painting and couple of weeks later I got time to put it on canvas.
Thank you for your interest and kind feedback!
Some theorists believe mankind was seeded here on earth from a comet,it's an interesting thought but i don't know if the science would support it.....great painting, refreshingly different, love the reaper one aswell
@Tel thanks a lot! You got incredible twist thought into my mind about this painting. Thanks A lot!
About the reaper. To me it looks tired rather than really going for it...I did notice it after I posted here.
Your nighttime colors worked wonderfully. The subject matter is tough, but there truly is so much we don’t know.
This is a very thought provoking scene as well as beautiful! The purple is striking and I'm very interested in how you made the stars...
@ ForestVueGallery thanks a lot!
@PaintRML: thanks a lot! I am very glad it wakes up thought process. This was exactly my intention to share it with the viewer.
Stars are easy: you need to have linseed oil and a bit of paint thinner . Prepare fan brush. Make a mix of white with a touch of yellow in one tiny pile. And white and blue in another. Use pallet knife to premix colors.
Now on your pallet make a little pool of oil and thinner together. Add there a bit of one color of premixed paint. Consistency is quite liquid, more like water, but a bit more viscous.
Next step place your painting horizontally on table. Cover area around (table walls, part of the painting without stars) as it will give splashes. Prepare a sheet of clean paper for testing. First you need to test splash pattern on it and adjust solvent ratio.
With fan brush go into this liquid paint. Saturate it well from both side. Take a thick brush in your non-dominant hand. Hold thick brush tight for bristles as you will be using handle of the brush. In your dominant hand take fan brush and hit it on the handle of the thick brush. Liquid paint will splash onto the test paper removing excess and allowing you to observe the size of droplets. When you happy with the size and shape of the droplets go to your painting and create stars there.
Use one color and then another color to create variety.
Important notes:
1. if you make it with pure thinner it will be diluting paint underneath of the star and they will mix forming fat nebulaes rather than tiny stars. Effect is very interesting and worth using for some other applications. This is why you need to have more oil than thinner in your mix.
2. If your fan brush is natural bristles you may need to beat it 2-3 times to remove blobs of paint and solvent on your test area before you go into the painting.
3. Experiment with it. It is fun!
Thank you for such detailed and generous instructions! I will definitely put this on my to do list. You should have your own tutorial on YouTube!
@Paint RML - Thanks for your kindness.. I tried to explain to make it possible to understand and hope it worked and you imagined what the process is. Stars are easy it is just matter of controlling the splashes a bit.
Please no youtube for me . I am not ready for that yet :)
@PaintRML.
I found another way for you how to make stars. Diane in this video makes sand but you can do it for the sky too.
https://youtu.be/B4S5eVfmh1M
Gee complicated , i just do dots
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Great work! I really like that you are creating art that makes you think about the current situation.
Is it only a hazard suit or a full astronaut (or cosmonaut in your case) suit? Is the person becoming a stranger to its own world? Would the person join the dead people without the suit?
Very powerful!