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Visions of a Distant Sea
#sea #alien #architecture #cosmic #dream #galaxy #ocean #psychedelic #scifi #seascape #stars #traditionalart #universe #visionaryart
Published: 2018-01-29 01:56:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 10496; Favourites: 605; Downloads: 0
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Oil on canvas , 45 x 60 cmSomewhere in the universe...
I decided to push my boundaries with this painting and try a more visionary approach, just letting my imagination fly and see what happens, following the line of my previous painting "Astral Cove". All I knew when I started painting this piece was that I wanted to portray a view of the sea under a starry sky. I ended up with this composition that includes some weird alien structures with crystal domes that rise above the waves under the galactic core, as if they were giant alchemical vessels absorbing and transmuting the cosmic energy.
Comments, critiques and observations are welcome as always.
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Very nicely done!!
Congratulations on your much deserved DD!
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nice work why don't you check out my page although its not as good because i don't have enough money for decent equipment but I'm hopping people will donate so that i can do more creative things with my art.
www.deviantart.com/yusei950
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Particularly eldritch. The distant planets and stars in the sky leads me to believe that the crystal domes will eventually "hatch" from their respective buildings and drift into the universe, continuing to grow in size, eventually mounting themselves in the void. Provocative!
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Thats an interesting interpretation. I really like when my work stimulates the imagination. The eldritch atmosphere was exactly what I was aiming for . Thanks for your comment, I`m glad you liked it !
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The command of colour here is nothing short of splendid. If you do not mind the curiosity, does the orange of the galaxy (especially around the blue and red planets on the lower left) fade into grey, or does it actually fade into green? Experimented with contrasting colour glow, but never with results as this.
As for the alchemical vessels: Could those be "orgone accumulators"?
Now, orgone is as non-existent as phlogiston, but that has not stopped people from building colossal structures to collect it. And this does seem a milieu where Hawkwind would be quite at home.
Well done.
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Hey . Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it. Concerning the glow of the orange/yellow galaxy, it fades into a bluish grey. However this is somewhat irrelevant for acheiving the glowing effect. It could be any colour but what truly matters is how you manage the tonal values. There should be a stark but progressive contrast between the light and dark with a blurry area in the transition zone. As for the orgon I actually had the idea in mind while painting this subject. I was trying to imagine some sort of spiritual technology that channels pure energy form the Galactic Core.
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You are most welcome, and thank you in turn - that simple sentence of advice has proven most useful. Only begun trying to understand light and colour in the past year, and have not found as much advice on gradient transitions as one would expect there to be. The blurry blue-grey zone has solved a lot of problems I have had painting "impossible" transitions, such as in spacebows (I do unfortunately not know the proper term).
The device, with the galactic core prominently displayed and the marine imagery, could well be a sort of spiritual ocean stream turbine: Placed under or above the Great Attractor, permanently exposed to an almost imperceptibly low intensity ray from its polar axis.
Good sci-fi should leave one scratching one's head.
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Fantastic piece! Excellent work on the water, reflections, composition & sky (on everything, really 
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Thankss for your positive feedback. It means a lot to me. I'm glad you like it 
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Fascinating, draws me in. Interesting nebula and structures in the water.
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Awesome use of lighting to capture this great atmosophere - and surely you must have been smoking some funny cigarettes while writing your work's description text mate
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That sky is just wonderful! You did a wonderful job on the overall lighting too by keeping it realistically dark.
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hey! Im glad to hear that! Having a consistent lighting is very important. Thanks 
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The refracted light in water and domes, and the galaxies, that's an awesome work!
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Thank you! im happy to hear that
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Your're skilled, for sure!
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Thanks!! thats what I was trying to comunicate
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Thanks ! I'm glad you like it
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I really love the galaxy above and the alien landscapes. Also like the colors a lot.
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