I really like this planet, or moon rather. I keep going to leave, but then I get sucked back into taking pictures again.
In some places the curly grass shifts mauve to blue. I took one where Triangle Head is just a gold shape in the prairie, like an idol.
But they’ll have to wait because I have launched back into space, a lime green glow, magenta gas clouds, and after a scan I’m on my way.
Mechanical Planet, aggressive sentinels.
Sure, I’ll bite.
See you tomorrow, in color.
Another corn-type plant of Piporo 34/L1. Notes: irresistible seeds
Still roaming the paradise moon, and sure enough, got caught up in a localized gravity inversion while drawing these lovely plants, with big purple-black leaves like a canna. I was lifted into the sky, alarmed, in an updraft of boulders, but then just hung suspended and enjoyed the view.
In no hurry to leave Piporo 34/L1, paradise moon. Golden sunlight streams down from the sky, pooling in valleys, and everywhere flowers.
Gone by butterfly in search of my next painting. I haven’t yet had my fill of curly violet grass, or the flowering prairie. The cool blue shade of a boulder. The rolling hills that go on forever.
Had a quick look around the paradise moon of Jasmodus Gamma and I might stay a while and paint the curly, very berry grassland, all shades of fuchsia and blackberry and violet — just my style.
There’s cerulean tallgrass cascading down hillsides, and two different plants of what I like to think of as the “corn type,” and the shimmering gold of Jasmodus Gamma filling the sky.
Scan warns of deadly pressure variations but so far it’s paradise.
I’ll take a long walk and let you know.
Finally finished painting the drawing I posted last week of Jasmodus Gamma, so go ahead and drift away to the mushroom forest, the pastel beach, and the cotton candy sky.
Over in No Man’s Sky, I’ve left the vermillion globe and touched down on its moon. It’s a hilly purple paradise; curly plum colored grassland studded with blue, and gold above. Can’t wait to show you.
See you there.
I snuck away to No Man’s Sky on Sunday, landing on a string of uninspiring planets until I finally parked my ship on a mushroomy little island on Jasmodus Gamma, a “Vermillion Globe.”
Like my favorite nail polish; pale turquoise and pink flash. I though yeah, I’d paint that, and took a look around.
Next week: The mushroom forests of Jasmodus Gamma, now in Technicolor.
I landed here before I logged off last time and expected that I’d move on before painting, but there were some pretty, grassy valleys and flowering meadows, so I hitched a ride on a big turtle dog and roamed around until I found a nice view.
I especially love the mullein-type plants on this planet. I see different variations on that form popping up here and there and I think they’re so striking. I always select a mullein or five and let them stand in my own wild front garden, and they get a lot of attention. Much of it is even positive.
I’ve got quite a bit more of this system to explore. I haven’t scanned any of the planets, so I’m not sure what’s out there, yet. Hopefully something tropical. I’m partial to something tropical.
I’m playing catch-up today, so here’s one from two years ago, from my No Man’s Sky travel journal. I picked a system with six planets and did one painting from each of them over the course of a week; this was number six.
I remember I put this planet off for last because it was the one I was least excited to paint. The others had lush hills and active volcanoes and . . . well, I won’t spoil it.
Someone told me recently that I should be working on my art for me, not to seek recognition. Huh. Does it mean something bad about me that I see no reason to make art that I don’t intend to share? To seek recognition implies, I think, a desire for accolades. I do seek recognition, but literally just that — to be recognized. I see no reason to tell this story to myself, as I already know it. I want to tell it to you.
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