Friday, September 2, 2011

Larking Lizards and Carpboat in Drifts of Rain












I've got a couple of end pieces about, and it's Friday so it's time for another Archipelago of the Three Lovers painting. (Essentially these are abstracts, at least in my approach to painting them.)
Here's the premise of this series:
It's a science fiction scene. Imagine three planets (the three lovers) in close orbit around a point in space. They're close enough together to share an atmosphere and occasionally scrap by each other knocking bits and pieces, plants, animals and people off into this shared atmosphere and these rocks then hang suspended like motes of dust within the shifting gravitational pull of the three planets. This is the archipelago, drifting 'islands' in free fall in the space between the worlds. I seem to remember an Edger Rice Burroughs book with twin worlds and a shared atmosphere, but I think three worlds would work better.

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for your comments; always welcome. As I mentioned somewhere in this blog or on deviantart, it is hard to paint something unfamiliar impressionistically without viewers wondering 'what is it?'. I just had to get comfortable with the idea that 'what is it?' is not a bad thing...

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