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SolidAhmed
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Hi everyone,
Encouraged by Mark, I will submit a painting I was working on, and I am still not satisfied with the result. I feel like there is lots of things are missing in it, but I want to submit it for now and work on it a little bit more later on. Just having a break from it right now. Also I would like ot ask, what do you think if I add some reddish pink color around the arms as if they were nebulas?
I hope you enjoy it. I worked on it six hours in two sessions.
What I used is the program Painter 9 and air brushs. I didn't use filters or any of the other stuff, not becuase I think they are not good, it's just I like my painting to have this analog feeling of a painting.
I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for reading.
-Ahmed
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markseibold
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Ahmed
You have a very realistic beginning here. Not to suggest borrowing from other art, but as you will learn that life imitates art and thus imitates life; Take a look at Timothy Ferris' Seeing in the Dark PBS film first aired across the nation on public TV last fall- I just watched it all the way through as a friend sent it to me as a gift. Available at some movie rental stores now - or to purchase as even perfect used copies on Amazon.com for $15. There are some amazing motion sequences of flying through galaxies- The art details show globular clusters at the galaxy edges, colorful nebulosity’s are scattered throughout the galaxy in multitudes.
Just a thought as this movie is superbly done by Ferris. I would recommend that you watch the end extra scenes for the interviews with Ferris- Very thought provoking words- For those not familiar with his works, he is the Dean of Astronomy at CALTECH at Berkeley- He was also close friends with Carl Sagan and helped to produce the gold record audio recordings that went onto the Voyager Spacecrafts.
-Mark
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Nick Lloyd
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Very beautiful, great depth and contrast, and the colors remind me of what I see through a telescope, as opposed to a photograph.
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stevecoe
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Ahmed;
I would have made the spiral arms more blue and less green. The shade of green you have used is correct for many planetary nebulae, but not spiral arms. Try and sparkly blue-white with the core a sunshine yellow. But, I love the details and the stars with spikes are great.
Looking good;
Steve Coe
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john D
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thats awesome! 
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SolidAhmed
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Mark,
Thanks a lot for the kind comment. I worked on your advice and rented the film and I really liked it. I would love to see more movies like this. It would be cool if they focused more in the artistic side of Stargazing and such.
Nick and John,
thanks a lot for your sweet comments. More to come.
Steve,
Thanks a lot for the nice comment. You are right about the colors, but I was trying to make the galaxy to have an exotic look, I had to sacrifice the realistic look. I hope I did that. Still there is more to work on this piece of art. I was thinking of adding few nebulas here and there, and maybe some star clusters.
Thank you all for the support.
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markseibold
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Ahmed
Not that this next one is more on art but I was also just sent a copy of the documentary-drama [docu-drama] about John Dobson, the world famous sidewalk astronomer, movie directed and produced by Jeffry Fox Jacobs, released in 2005 to selected movie houses starting in NYC. The DVD is now available for sale online and for rent in some movie rental stores- I just visited with Dobson a couple weeks ago as he is recovering from a stroke. He is doing fine.
This film titled "A Sidewalk Astronomer" is very thought provoking and mind-wrenching as it shows his on the sidewalks with the public and at star party events around the world. Dobson speaks at age 90 in this film like a fervent and enthusiastic combination of a modern surreal Albert Einstein and George Carlin combined. He is nothing short of brilliant!
(Here is an online sampler) >
http://www.telescopepictures.com/
I highly recommend it!
best regards,
-Mark
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DoctorNoodle
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Excellent work, Ahmed! Lots of depth. I almost want to reach out and touch that interloper galaxy!
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ForgottenMObject
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Wow!
This is a very impressive painting - I love the scale and depth of it, as well as the mix of dark and light.
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Franklink
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There is definitely a lot of depth, you aced the core. I love how the yellow light of the core is reflected off the arms!
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