Inspirations in my art – part 1

By: Teknowizard Mood: happy Date: 12/23/2007 16:46:16 Music: None

Artists are often asked about what inspires us in our work. For myself, I would have to say that one of the main inspirations is the universe itself, which includes astronomy, such as this artistically enhanced & manipulated artwork based on an image from the NASA/Hubble gallery. And I am apparently, according to the NASA Copyright office, one of the few that bothered to contact them and notify them that I was modifying them & using commercially, as they request in their copyright notice… LOL I actually asked before manipulating any just to make sure I had permission so I could legally sell them. Which by the way NASA also asks that I make it clear that I am NOT in any way, affiliated nor sponsored by NASA.



The Magellanic Clouds are smaller galaxies just outside our own Milky Way galaxy, the overwhelming gravity of which slowly pulls apart these tiny galaxies and they will someday far in the future, become part of the Milky Way.

Adding in the inspiration of SciFi (Science Fiction) and I can take elements I see within say the above artwork, as in the abstract elements of gravitational forces, combined with influences of theoretical physics and a whole lot of imagination.

And I can create a beautiful nebula, born of a spacial rift (a theoretical tear in the fabric of space), the dusts, debris & gasses shaped over time by the gravitational forces, both of the region and the spacial rift itself. Add to that a gas giant like Jupiter, a single huge frozen moon and a space vessel exploring it all, and it now tells its own story to inspire others imagination.



And as art often does, no matter what the venue, inspiration often leads to the future as well. This is a much more recent one in my Spacial Rift series, in this one adding wormholes and a second race's starship exiting one of the wormholes. This one I choose to do a bit darker in its coloring to create the illusion of the only light source as coming through the spacial rift, casting a ghostly light upon the nebula & ships.

And to give an insight into my goals artwise... Someday when I have earned enough to afford a good tablet/stylus so I can digitally paint again, I will create fictional nebulae as beautiful as this NASA image of the Carina Nebula.