{"id":1303,"date":"2007-04-03T06:37:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T10:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2012-09-15T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T16:26:37","slug":"roswell-in-search-of-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1303\/roswell-in-search-of-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Seekers – In Search of the Truth (digital painting)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Southwest<\/a>
\nSouthwest Seekers – In Search of the Truth
\n30 by 16.51 inches
\nDigital painting 2007
\nJ. Kearns<\/p>\n

Enlargement<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks Intergalacticstock, whose “I’m Waiting, 5” was used for reference for the model. Great expression.<\/p>\n

That stock image is here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Background reference was a personal photo taken at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico. Fun place.<\/p>\n

Detail is below. The painting is about 30 inches wide, as is a lot of my stuff as my computer can comfortably handle it. Done at 300 dpi. Detail below is at actual pixel size.<\/em><\/p>\n

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As with a lot of my digital paintings, I really don’t expect an “OOoo, oh, wow” response. Especially on a monitor where they’re not viewed as large as they’re intended to be. Many of the paintings are of fairly mundane settings, like this. They’re not freshened with the fantastic and highly symbolic details. You’ve got here a very unattractive wall, fire extinguisher, part of a door, and the model placed before the print of some art work at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico. High drama it’s not. And I’m not mocking the UFO culture. It’s a pretty straight forward painting.<\/p>\n

I’ve got several more I’d like to do using the UFO idea. Have already done one of H.o.p. The Registration Desk.<\/a><\/p>\n

When I got home from the trip which took us by the UFO museum, I looked through my pics and saw with the one of the “In Search of the Truth” poster I’d not avoided the flash reflecting off the glascine. I don’t recollect what that portion of the painting looked like, whether the man’s face was shown or not, but it seemed appropriate to me, the bright light covering the person’s face in an art work titled, “In Search of the Truth”. What you end up with here is a painting of a piece of art. You can’t see the whole of it. A woman with an expression very similar to old silent movie emotiveness is standing before. One way I could think of it is I’ve painted one view of what the universe made of itself in that place at that particular time, including my camera flash (but not a thermostat that was also on the wall), and added a woman looking back at the presumed presence of a viewer of the painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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