no joe i don't dig his paintings...very amateurish.
.. best he sticks to his star gazing however saying that it's great to see folk taking up the brush.. you never know where it might lead them... ..practise joe it's all about practise and having something to express.. .merle 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.
