'MOONMAN'
This
is the first in a set of three paintings entitled 'Moonman',
'Saturnine', and 'Earthspiral'. It was painted in a stylised fashion
from various photographs available from the Nasa website and website
photographs in general. It details actual geographical features like
the craters that give the impression of a face. The rings around the
moon are visible phenomenon at times, however the strip and peal-like
beams of light are more stylised, but loosely based on how light is
actually constructed or seen; the beads representing particles and
the lines representative of lines sometimes seen by the eye on video
when there is a sun flare. To produce the geographical features,
thick paint of different colours was dripped and swirled with a
cotton pick or scraped with it. The shining affect was achieved by
drawing silver circles around the moon then using a dry bristle brush
to drag the wet gel outwards; I also drew white pastels lines, and
used my fingers to fade these outwards. The painting was then blacked
in again to emphasise the dark and light.
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