Bolivar Lighthouse Painting.

Commission painting of Bolivar lighthouse near Galveston Let’s take a closer look at the symbolism…btw you can see it before it goes to the collector’s home…

Let’s take a closer look at the symbolism…btw you can see it before it goes to the collector’s home at our Fall Biannual open studios event this Saturday. (Go to the Events page, or the bottom of any page of this site.) Ok, let’s get back to the what’s beneath the surface of this painting:

So I decided with this commission I would show the aerobeakon to have isolated colors from the spectrum of visible light with their respective wavelengths. I found a graph showing the waves of each color, superimposed them on top of each other, then warped the graph into the light cone shape. Once…

They were referenced from a star map using the birth date of the collector’s father, had he lived to that last birthday. It is a view of what the night sky would have looked like from this vantage point. This was extremely difficult, as once the star map was traced back, I then had to work out how…