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The brilliant base image is by Jennifer Tuffen, @izkiz on instagram!
A collaboration with my oil painting teacher Vincent Crotty. The first of many layers, and a blend of our styles, with his signature approach to light.
the sun is shining, and the city is brightly lit, warm hues are used to reflect the pastel / cream color of much of the city during the day.
Herald’s friend Slappy already asked what we’re all thinking.
I thought it would be cheeky to provide the flip of the moon shot.
A totally normal restaurant scene.
I mean, the truth could be in Santorini for all I know!? Given that truth is a human ideal, it is just as likely to be in Santorini as anywhere else…
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┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬ I’m sorry for the glare / reflections :(
Need I say more!? What? See, there’s Atlantis, with its shield bubble, and a Stargate placed awkwardly in front of the city like in the show advertising copy 8D
uh, for non-Atlantis literate, the Stargate was inside the city… gosh…
Floating somewhere calmly behind the moon :-)
“Japanese emoticons”, kaomoji, kawaii faces rendition:
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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
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The truth is out there, but seeing as they’re in a a version of Santorini floating beyond the moon and earth, they uh, probably already know it ;-)
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Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days, by Jenna Rainey is a fabulous book to learn from. These are my unedited results from that journey.