Featured Artist Craig Burt has provided us
with a breakdown of one of his paintings that provides us with a look into how
the picture came about. Here is some of the article created by Craig:
"Past
and Present"
This one is the painting chosen by our Jedi Power for the
'icon' link image for the painting gallery at Galactic Voyage.
1. Is, or,
is not the start of the painting, depending on your perspective. This picture is
from a 1996 Cinescape magazine article on the resurgence of Star Wars in novel
form; If you can't make it out, it's a drawing of Darth Vader sitting in the
candlelight reading.
Now go to 2003. With the magazine forgotten, I've had an idea
to do a painting with Vader in the dark looking at a hologram of Padmé, which
I've never got around to doing. Then I get an email from Sandra Mosch the
webmaster of http://www.thenextamidala.com/ - who I've sent some paintings
too - suggesting much the same idea. I also think I had someone else email the
same idea when talking about one of my paintings; but I can't remember who.
Obviously, looking back, the painting idea came from the magazine - but not
consciously. Everything in human society is built on something else; every
painting, story, invention, consciously or not. Did Sandra or the other emailer
see the same magazine? Don't know, didn't ask them. All this makes me wonder who
gets the credit for the painting, George Lucas probably.
Be sure to read the rest of the article about "Past
and Present" in the Painting by
Numbers section. Thanks Craig for another great walkthrough of how this
image came about! Enjoy! |