WIP – surface of the sun painting

Anyone who’s been in our lounge will know there are not many paintings on the walls…this is soon to change! I spotted a photo of the surface of the sun in an Astronomy book and thought it would make a colourful and abstract painting to brighten up one of the walls. What I didn’t realize was how boring it would be to paint all the little round “bubbles”. Attempts at progress such as “10 bubbles a day, might finally get there in a year” have failed. I’m currently blitzing an area each weekend…and slowly getting there.

I’ve been using Winsor and Newton’s water soluble oils (didn’t even know there was such a thing!) as I hate the smell of Turps. They seem to work fine, but I don’t have a greal deal of experience with regular “anti-water” oils to notice the difference really.

The original photo that I’m working from is courtesy of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.