Super Nova

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Exploding star
Brilliant
Light years Away


In the past I have challenged myself to try and paint 50 paintings in 50 days.  The best I've managed to do is 30 paintings in 50 days.  So in order to try and set a more realistic goal this time, I've decided to shoot for 30/30.  I hope to post each painting and list them for sale on my website with open edition prints available on Imagekind.com.  If you are a fellow creative and would like to join in on the challenge please let me know! 

Just a little info about the inspiration behind this piece:

This week I was reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle to my 10 year old daughter.  For those not in the know, this is a science fiction series of novels for young adults.  In the book the three protagonists in the story seek to rescue a father from the grip of a "Dark Planet" by time traveling through space.  Something is mentioned about how a star can give it's life in order to beat the darkness away.   I was able to see the dying star exploding with Light and I remembered a conversation I had where someone told me "Light can take away Darkness...but Darkness can take away no Light." 

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Super Nova (c) 2009 Shoshanna Bauer All Rights Reserved

 

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Wishing for Sun

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Ending blooms
before the seed seek
just a taste of sun


The reason behind this painting stems from the fact that I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD. I had been cooped up in the house during a long gray and rainy week and it was my birthday. I only wanted the sun to peek out and shed some rays on my dampened spirit. I gave up and finally painted myself some sunshine. All the other dandelions in the painting are going to seed. When I was a kid blowing on dandelions granted wishes...The one lonely light green dandelion in the middle signifies the desire to fight the blues while "Wishing for Sun".

Wishing for Sun (c) 2009 Shoshanna Bauer All rights Reserved

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