Created: February 2006

Medium: Transparent Acrylics on Cold Press Paper

Dimensions: 5" x 8" (unframed) 8" x 10" framed

Status: For Sale $30

COMMENTS: I couldn't stop fooling with those new paints and I had a huge sheet of cold press paper that had been around forever. I did almost the entire sheet with a blue wash, and then started cutting sizes and shapes out of it. You've seen a couple of the other pieces from that weekend of experimentation. This is one that went in a totally different direction. I figure, if you're going to do art shows at science fiction conventions, there should be some science fiction involved. At one of the conventions in recent years, a guy walked by wearing a "Mars Expeditionary Forces" camouflage outfit. (Costuming is very big at some of these conventions and I'll be discussing and displaying that in a future entry.) That costume inspired this image of a surveyor on Mars, with Olympus Mons in the background. I have a kind of Mount Fuji thing going on here. This image doesn't quite show the vivid orange and red and brown camouflage that the surveyor is wearing and perhaps I'll repost the image at a future date.