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Finishing up a small painting of Essun from the Broken Earth Trilogy. It’ll be up on @everydayorig on February 5th. Supporters on my patreon community get access to the final a bit earlier along with all the process and other rewards ✨✊✨
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Available Monday morning on @everydayorig
Song of the Universe Detailed Study, 8 x 6 inches
One voice sings, “Nothing matters.” We are insignificant specks on a speck in a vast uncaring cosmos. When our sun burns out, billions of years from now, it may be entirely inconsequential what happened on our home speck. A melancholy chord, but it also makes problems feel small and helps us to reevaluate how we spend our time. A reminder to live more in the present moment, rather than always fretting the future.
The other voice incants, “Everything matters!” We are here, now, wrapped in the real experience of our joy and suffering, enmeshed in a web of relations with all life on earth. Everything that we do has consequences that will be experienced by our fellow beings. There is profound purpose to be pursued in the improvement of life for ourselves and others. A melody of unity and goodwill.
Different though they seem, each voice tempers the other and blends in a bittersweet, harmonized hymn: a song of Cosmic Perspective.
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New detailed study, 8 x 6 inches, tomorrow morning @everydayorig
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
This quote from Carl Sagan represents one of the most poetic truths of our scientific reality. That the heavy elements that we are made of weren’t created at the beginning of time. Only hydrogen and helium were immediate results of the Big Bang. The rest of the elements were created in the nuclear furnaces of earlier generations of stars that have since exploded and spread their material across the universe. We are literally made of stardust.
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Detail of a new study going up Sunday Morning on @everydayorig
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Spring’s Melody, Sweet as Honey
A courtier in the retinue of Spring plays a carefree tune amidst an idyllic landscape to an audience buzzing with approval.
Inspired by the glow of fresh buds adorning branches, by the sound of pipes and drums, and by the magic inherent in the wheel of the year.
Painted in watercolor, gouache, and ink on 140lb Arches Hot Press paper, and embellished with gold ink and metal leaf, and framed.
Painted for @everydayoriginal last month (and sold!)
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The Herald of Winter’s Relentless Chill
Bitter wind whips the banner She bears, announcing the imminent grasp of the cold on an otherwise still world.
Inspired by the ochres of dead reeds against stormy blue skies, by tales of ever-shifting Fae courts and by the magic inherent in the wheel of the year.
Painted in watercolor, gouache, and ink on 140lb Arches hot press paper, accented with metal leaf and metallic gold ink.
Painted for @everydayoriginal in February (and still available!)
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The Waning Light of the Emerald King
His light fades with the change of seasons; his departure ushering in the frigid reign of winter.
Inspired by myths and folklore, by tales of ever-shifting Fae courts and by the magic inherent in the wheel of the year.
Painted in watercolor, gouache, and ink on 140lb Arches hot press paper, accented with metal leaf and metallic gold ink.
Painted for @everydayoriginal last year as part of “Newbie November”.
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