Ascension!

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One of my first ventures into painting was this piece entitled "Ascension."
Fascinated with light and many of the pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope I began to paint pieces with astronomy as a main subject.
I learned to love this genre, although it's been mis-labeled as "science fiction"
Prints for this item are available, as the original sold as soon as it had debuted.

See more Space Artwork here!

Space Art - An under estimated genre

It's sad, really - people love picts from the Hubble Space Telescope but when it comes to artwork and paintings that depict images that much like the Hubble pictures, people tend to bypass the art and dismiss it as "Sci-Fi"

Not an easy spot to be in when you're creating this kind artwork and when you do a search on Fine Art America, you can see quite a collection of really good space scapes.

Maybe I'm being to hard on the viewers, really - it is a matter of proper subject matter when you are going to decorate your home with art. Seriously, who picks a nebulous piece called "Threnody" to place over their Queen-Anne style poster bed???

Oh well, such is the unfairness of it all.
In the meantime, take a look at this great  - and often fun collection of pieces:

Space Canvas Prints