Day Four: October Art Challenge

Hello from the fuuuuuutuuuuure, from Day 5! I couldn’t work on yesterday’s painting until night time and needed it to dry overnight! Usually I’d use my blowdryer, but I couldn’t make the late night racket. I heard the internet was broken anyways. Here is Day 4!

SAGUARO NIGHTS

Watercolor & Ink

Original painting available here in my shop: https://novastardust.com/originals/saguaro-nights

The original concept is from a sketchbook from 2015. I remember how relaxing it was to melt the cool blues and greens into each other and pair it with the bold contrasting night sky halos. For the re-paint, I wanted to keep the concept and color scheme almost identical, and just have the craftsladyship be a little less lackadaisical. In real life, the finger halos are in shiny gold ink.

Here is a photo from the last time I went to Arizona, waving to a giant Saguaro cactus on a desert hike! I love any oversized nature items like cacti, trees, and mountains; they’re very humbling It’s good to feel smol and insignificant sometimes.

I have this thing where every time I scan and edit my art in Photoshop, I must invert the image to see what it would look like. Can we check out this twilight disco cactus!?? This makes me want to re-make the re-make, twilight style.

Come back a little later to see the Day 5 painting!

* cactus hand waves *

NOVA