My ArtVenture: Acrylic painting "Steem: To infinity and beyond!"

Hello my dear Steemians,

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As you may noticed there are a lot of stuff that we are busy with lately but I keep my painting going too, of course because when we upvote then try to give between 70-100% then the Upvote power drains up so quickly that we need couple of days for re-charge. I am really upset about that because I would be happy to UPVOTE you my friends daily.

But so long there are no changes in the system we live with what we have and just adopt ourselves.

About 3 days ago I saw very interesting post of @timcliff about Steem Blast day and immediately I have had an idea how I can contribute but like I mentioned I could not post earlier so hear it is my work.

My Idea for Steem Blast Day

First I thought the topic itself mean some exploding stuff, of course if there is an exposure then the particles are thrown with a high speed and we want STEEM only go up in the chart, like rocket. To paint a rocket, yes, may be good but it is not so interesting.

I know many accounts like @sndbox and @creativecrypto encourage spread the word to other people and get them to learn more about Steem, so I thought the young generation learn it quickly, even without teaching they can use their Nintendos and Xboxes why not to start with young children to promote there, like making art with the topic of Steem.

Thinking of children, my son’s favourite story when he was little was “Toy Story” and there the Captain Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was the funniest and favourite character, of course his quote:

„To infinity and beyond!“ is the most memorable cinematic one-liner

So I have a name for my painting.

The next what to paint: of course a child, you know I love painting children. When my son was little I hoped he also will love creating art because me and his grandmother from my hubby side and my own father both love Art and created Artworks, but my son does not have any interest in art C'est la vie :)

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Acrylic painting "Steem: To infinity and beyond!"by @Stef1

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So the child who has his little easel and painting a moon where Steem already arrived too, far in the corner is the Dream of Human Nations Planet Mars, there are a lot of talk to organise the vessels and even a human colony to Mars, of course then the next destination for Steem is Mars :)

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My step-by-step process and materials:

I used again, my favorite canvas textured acrylic paper large format of 30.5x40.5 cm and pastel pencil to make a sketch

My palette with primary colors: Cadmium Red and Yellow, Cyn Blue and minimal Burnt Sienn and White. It looks dark but do not worry, acrylic better to do dark first then you light it up. Another reason why it looks dark because the rest is still white :)

I thought to paint the legs and arms because on sketch I made them too slim and they irritated me the whole time, now they look better, more natural

Now the easiest part the background, just do whatever colors you like:

Now the painting in painting :)

Now a little fine details to chaos:

As you noticed I added more light to the left side like from the window and that made a trick it looks more natural with the shadow of easel and of course some nebula for space and Voila my result:

Acrylic painting "Steem: To infinity and beyond!"by @Stef1

Acrylic textured paper 30.5x40.5 cm, paper weight 260 gsm, acrylic colors, palette knives, flat and round brushes.

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I hope you enjoyed my post and thank you for viewing :-)