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onebigmonkey
Hate to burst everyone's bubble, but it's an Alan Bean painting:
www.astronautcentral.com...
Recognised the style as soon as I saw it.
onebigmonkey
Hate to burst everyone's bubble, but it's an Alan Bean painting:
www.astronautcentral.com...
Recognised the style as soon as I saw it.
Aleister
onebigmonkey
Hate to burst everyone's bubble, but it's an Alan Bean painting:
www.astronautcentral.com...
Recognised the style as soon as I saw it.
So Alan Bean is kind of cheating a little bit with this painting, using the Florida picture as a foundation, just putting the scene on the moon. Now we know one of his tricks. The painting was done in 1984, and is sincerely so seriously signed "Senator Schmitt Samples Subsurface Soil", secretly secondhand solarly-singed seashore sand. Solved!
onebigmonkey
Aleister
onebigmonkey
Hate to burst everyone's bubble, but it's an Alan Bean painting:
www.astronautcentral.com...
Recognised the style as soon as I saw it.
So Alan Bean is kind of cheating a little bit with this painting, using the Florida picture as a foundation, just putting the scene on the moon. Now we know one of his tricks. The painting was done in 1984, and is sincerely so seriously signed "Senator Schmitt Samples Subsurface Soil", secretly secondhand solarly-singed seashore sand. Solved!
He quite often themes his paintings by combining different Apollo events, or depicting an event that is documented from a different angle.
He also usually puts an Apollo footprint in the photos, and mixes in moon dust (ingrained in material he brought back and was allowed to keep) with the paint.
I attended a presentation he did recently and he spent some time discussing how he made them.
Aleister
I recall that the moon dust he uses in his paintings was originally from a dusty patch from his spacesuit which he still has.