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Landscape-Painter — A Lighthugger
Published: 2012-10-01 23:08:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 5018; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 32
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I've been staring an empty canvas for weeks now. I was starting to think maybe I should just pack it in and try something else. But then, suddenly and unexpectedly, the creative energy returned. Funny thing how it comes and goes.I wanted to do an another version of Nostalgia For Infinity, the famous spaceship from the Revelation Space series, or one of the other lighthuggers. The previous one was so sharp and spiky, and I thought the basic shape could be more classic and streamlined, maybe even pleasantly plump and feminine, without it being just another 60's rocketship. The femininity aspect didn't really come through, the way it stands there and thrusts forward... Also, it has so smooth surface and none of the scarring or growths described in the books, so it must be some another lighthugger.
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Another lighthugger, eh? 
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There were several, most with extremely cool names. My favorite being Gnostic Ascension, and also Third Gazometric stuck to mind because of the way its captain was described.
This painting was a bit of revelation space for me personally, when I realized I don't have to paint every star individually: First, a black background, then the fog-like galactic plane. After those, I took a big brush and soaked it with loose paint and splattered the paint on by twisting and releasing the bristles with my fingers, so that the paint shoots onto canvas as tiny specks. First with darker gray, then lighter gray and finally with white. Consistency of the paint is important, so it doesn't make too large splatters, or stripes or such. Extremely easy, but anyway better to try on another surface first.
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That's a really neat technique. Also great to see more Revelation Space artwork, I've always thought the concept of a lighthugger was really interesting starship idea.
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Thanks! Lighthuggers have something in their description that sounds very feasible, don't they? But there were so many of them. I was particularly fascinated by Skade chasing Clavain to Resurgam, in 'Redemption Ark'. That was a great piece fiction that was really based on technology, and would be a challenging thing to paint some part of that maybe.
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