Joe is moving along nicely even with several changes in course. Some sections are rougher than others since I just added them tonight. Still, heading in the right direction. Way more layers than any of my paintings to date.
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Steam for the Turbine
Well, I have been putting some time into Atomic Joe and I am seeing progress in that I can turn off the drawing without the painting just looking like a fuzzy image in a telescope. I have moved the design to a larger canvas so I can create more of a background. Watch for more updates and further explanations.
Lighting the Boiler
Starting to play with detail and color. I have several layers running already with more to come as I play with different aspects of this image.
Meet Atomic Joe
Here is an early image of the demon AtomicJoe. This is only the most basic start of the painting and a photo from my phone to boot but I think it is a promising start.
Dangerous Days and Those Who Embrace Them
Starting to set up a new project. So far I have made a few test drawings trying to work out the idea but only one part set. The idea came to me after watching a documentary about the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
I wanted to depict my emotions concerning man’s continued hubris. We continually exploit dangerous tools knowing full well we lack the wisdom and ability to leash our darker side to make their use safe. Hell, look who America elected President to see how unwise they are.
All you have to do is look at the oil and banking industries to see how greed far outstrips wisdom. My idea to show the folly of us running nuclear power plants is to create a demon of atomic mistakes. So plan on meeting Atomic Joe in the near future.
Clean up in Saturn Orbit
Courtesy of National Geographic
This is something I have been thinking about since I read the third Expanse novel, “Cibola Burn”, by S A Correy. Space warfare is a loose, loose proposition.
I started thinking about this idea when Alex and Naomi used the rail gun as a means to save the Rocinate and the colonists ship. I thought “what happens to the projectile”? Given the velocities of such slugs and the lack of friction in space, Newton’s first law says it should just keep going. Just one more small meteorite screaming through the Galaxy. Of course, planetary gravity or collisions with stellar bodies could destroy the projectile, but what if the slugs are shot sufficiently far from such influences.
In addition, when talking about space battles, you have to take into account all the munitions expended, as well as, the debris from destroyed ships. Now consider all the objects NASA and the Air Force track in orbit to protect space launches. At the speeds satellites and space craft travel to maintain orbit, even chips of paint become deadly projectiles. After each space battle, there would be thousands and thousands of such deadly objects left behind requiring additional tracking for normal space flight safety. The more battles you have, the more debris you have to track forever afterwards unless you clean up the area. Just imagine a solar system littered from thousands of space engagements.
So, unless we develop shield technology along with our deep space capacity, we better leave our wars on the ground. Oh, who am I kidding. As usual, we will have our wars wherever we go and then realize the mistakes we made while trying to clean up the mess.
Meow!!!!
OMG, keep the cat out of here. Yes, the fishy looking supernova is finally done. I will be posting it to my deviantart page if anyone wants a print. Your support would be super.
