Hey everybody, Good news! I got my camera working and i painted a really good volcano scene. There are some things that i am going to discuss about how i made this one.

My favorite part of this painting is hands down the planet. The planet was a great success and I know why. One: I layered my colors differently, instead of putting down the paints from lightest to darkest, I mixed it up a little and went from middle to lightest to darkest. So instead of yellow, orange, red. I went orange, yellow, red. Second: I didn’t put the paints down as exact circles, one on top of the other. I tried to make areas where there was more yellow than orange, or more red than yellow…etc. Third of all, instead of laying down the magazine and smoothing it out for a moment against the paint, I laid it down for at most two seconds and then tore it off quickly, this gave the planet the great rough canyon texture which i really like.

Here is an up close on the texture of the planet.