“Earth”, “Sun”, “Moon” Painting Series/ Process
Nov 3 · 4 min read
For quite awhile I’ve been kicking around the idea of a series of paintings having to do with our solar system in relation to earth. Although I have a lot of ideas, I wanted to start off with a really small series that included either animals or insects each relating to the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon. After a lot of sketching and thinking, I landed on a cicada, a bee, and a moth. I chose these insects because cicadas hibernate in the earth for many years, bees are active in sunlight hours, and moths are nocturnal. I also wanted these to be
illustrations rather than…

