adventures

of aplantfancier

Tag: storytelling

  • in the etbandf system

    Still tooling around on the mushroomy coast of Jasmodus Gamma while I finish up the color on this one. There’s laundry chugging away outside the saloon doors, as usual, but now there’s a wild little puppy napping in there too. Slowly but surely, new routines replace the old, and life returns to normal, as if she’s always been here.

    Slowly but surely, the garden is waking up outside, hints of buds are forming on the trees, and I am learning to care for this new family member, who enters her seventh month on Earth today. She is pure enthusiasm, and she is . . . yep, destroying my beautiful hand loomed rug.

    Gotta run — see you next week.

  • l. sternketeus

    This week, we head back to the vermillion globe to take a look at L. Sternketeus — robot fauna with a handy built-in umbrella. Nice way to see the misty pink and seafoam coast of Jasmodus Gamma.

    From there it’s back to Piporo to build a gate and then–

    Well, you’ll just have to wait and see.

  • one

    I wanted to return to this series of paintings I teased last month, from my No Man’s Sky travel journal. This, as you can probably tell from the title, is the first.

    One of the most “Earth-like” planets I’ve ever run across, except that there seems to have been some sort of technology-related apocalypse at some point. Oh wait, that’s exactly like Earth!

    I love how this one turned out, I love the volcano violet sky and the brush pen shadows. I decided to paint the whole system before I moved on, and each planet came with new challenges, and new opportunities to learn.

    I’m still learning.

    Back tomorrow, with something even closer to home.

    See you then.

  • paradise moon

    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.

  • vermillion globe

    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.

  • covington, wa

    My sister’s garden is so magical, with ducks and dogs and my little niece running around.

    When it rains, which it often does, the sound on the corrugated steel roof reminds me of summers in New England, visiting family. It never rained like that where we grew up.

  • zulphli tau

    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.

  • six

    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.

  • pink room days

    As you can probably tell, I am once again experimenting with stippling. Results have been mixed, both because I don’t really know what I’m doing and because it’s very hard to concentrate while a puppy is crying and trying to climb onto the table. Hence, these drawings and last week’s window swap were done under duress.

  • evening street view

    Painting window swaps in my travel journal while I spend some time close to home this year.

    Can you tell I’m trying to learn stippling?

    And also blogging?

    I’m kind of circling a post format I like, so bear with me, I’m very new to blogging. Is it a blogging faux pas to say you’re new to blogging? If it is I wouldn’t know because I’m very new to blogging.