Thanks, Merle!
"Oh, and another thing": when Hartmann paints space art, he is still painting
landscapes!
You could put this guy anywhere in the Solar System (or etc.), and he would
still paint landscapes! ;-)
He's funny in some ways: he often puts some soil, from the site he's working
at, into the paint. So, for example, in his _en plein air_ landscapes in
Iceland, he has sprinkled some of the black volcanic soil particles into paint
in the foreground. Things like that. If he painted on Mars, you can be sure
he'd mix some of Mars' red soil into the paint somewhere on the canvas. Makes
for interesting textures. He uses acrylics for 90 percent of his paintings,
with impasto that varies from painting to painting.
Acrylics will be no good in a vacuum, because the water will boil out of it
immediately (giving rise to new textures? hmm-m). Oils will be problematic,
too, and the oil solvents and oil media boil at lower temperatures than water,
I think (but it all depends on the material's vapor-pressure at a given temp.).
Painting _en plain air_ in the vacuum of space will require some re-working of
the materials, and/or methods. And the name will have to be changed, too!,
because... well, no air!
;-)
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> .joe i'd have to see hartmann in the flesh so to speak.
>
> ..i'll do my own research and get back to you.
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