Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Launch! STARSHIP SPECTRUM is a #watercolor #painting of the first SpaceX Starship launch on April 20, 2023, based on a spectacular photo by Trevor Mahlmann 🤩🚀🌈

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Last night: watching SW: A New Hope, working on Starship piece 3, an ink/watercolor combo, more launch tower fun…

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Video of “THE FUTURE IS HERE”, another view of the historic @SpaceX #Starship launch on 4/20/23.

Watercolor, metallic watercolor and ink on cotton, 6x12”.

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Finished! “THE FUTURE IS HERE”, another view of the historic @SpaceX #Starship launch on 4/20/23. Watercolor and ink on cotton, 6x12”. The borders are painted in metallics, video to follow. (Also pictured: me.)

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Late night #painting session on #Starship painting 2 of 5… 🚀🎨 (I had no time to do anything on-theme for May the 4th, but maybe I’ll rally tomorrow for Revenge of the 5th?)

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Progress on #Starship painting #4, which if we’re going by order of completion would be #2… 🚀🎨

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TFW you scan your finished piece at 11pm Thursday night before leaving on a trip, post it everywhere en route on Friday morning… come home and realize you forgot to correct the white levels. 🤪 Here’s the BETTER pic:

“STARSHIP SPECTRUM”, 7x10”, watercolor on cotton.

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Here’s a video showing the pearlescent paints used on “STARSHIP SPECTRUM”, of the marvelous (if short-lived) SpaceX Starship Launch on 4/20 (reference photo by Trevor Mahlmann)

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Finished! “STARSHIP SPECTRUM”, 7x10”, watercolor on cotton, of the marvelous (if short-lived) SpaceX Starship Launch on 4/20 (reference photo by Trevor Mahlmann)

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Tonight’s forecast: More painting on #wip Starship Launch (phenomenal reference photo by Trevor Mahlmann, tmahlmann.com), complex layers of color in the exhaust and plume, but it’s getting closer…

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