Saturn Portrait

by David Dorrell

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48.000 x 36.000 x 0.750 inches

Title

Saturn Portrait

Artist

David Dorrell

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas With Background Enhanced Digitally

Description

Saturn, sixth from the sun and of my planet series of paintings. This is a portrait of the planet. My intent was to try and capture the essence without capturing every detail. I compared sources available to me and painted my own interpretation of the planet. The lighting is pretty much just straight on. There are no stars visible. Saturn required some thought. Should I make the body of the planet the same as the others, or try and give it the same overall feel. I opted for the same overall feel. To do that I made the body of the planet smaller, but tilted the rings to fill the space similarly to the others. The idea is to create a feeling of approaching another world in space. No clever shadow/lighting effects, no stars or "stardust" effects, just the bare face and beautiful rings of Saturn (note that I know other planets have rings, this series was painted 20 years ago, before we knew other planets had rings, and even before we knew what Pluto looked like).

Note that when photographing the painting the space background loses a lot of its depth. To overcome this, I found adding a screen over the background, enhances the background so it most closely resembles how it appears in person.

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April 28th, 2021

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