I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while! The center galaxy went through multiple revisions. My initial idea was for something like the Sombrero Galaxy, but it wasn't working and I decided on on a face-on spiral instead.
This took a little over an hour in Clip Studio Paint.
Finished! DIANA PIERCES THE AZURE SKY, 9x12”, ink and watercolor on illustration board. Inspired by a photo of Apollo 4, the first launch of the Saturn V rocket on Nov. 9, 1967 from Kennedy Space Center.
A few days’ progress on the Saturn V launch piece, finishing the tower and the rocket, the exhaust using Ferris Wheel Press PLAITED GOLD TRESS, and foreground pad structure in ATLAS IRON ORE.
Excited to (finally!) announce that my artwork FAREWELL TO BENNU is on the back cover of The Planetary Society’s December 2023 issue of THE PLANETARY REPORT!
Featuring an artist’s impression of a massive young star in the process of forming, discovered in our nearest neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.