Revolving Around The Greatest Light

ABOUT THE PAINTING

Elayne wanted to use her Black Artist's Loft Ready-Mixed Pouring Paint as a background for the canvas but wasn't sure how it might turn out. She let the Spirit move her in creating the piece.

PROCESS

1. Elayne poured Black pouring paint on the canvas and spread it with a black sponge brush across the top and sides. Then she let it dry and painted it two more times, drying the canvas between paintings.

2. Martha Stewart's Gold Multi-Surface Glitter was wiped across the canvas with a sponge brush to give it a light reflective background.

3. After that Elayne stood in a blank state to let Spirit direct the next step, which was to brush-paint clockwise spirals in five different colors - a large white center with 2 yellow, 3 crimson, 2 green, and 2 light blue spirals interspersed around the center. The colored spirals were painted two or three times but left to look lightly done so they appeared to be revolving.

4. Larger white and smaller yellow dots were added throughout the canvas with smaller brushes so they looked like stars at different distances in the night sky. White dots were put in the center of each spiral to give the spirals impact.

5. The center spiral got several coats of white paint with gold glitter sprinkled several times on the last coat and excess glitter shaken off.

6. The canvas was left to completely dry then finished with Krylon Crystal Clear  Acrylic Coating.

7. After Elayne studied the canvas, she decided to call it "Revolving Around The Greatest Light" just as the planets revolve around the sun. As it so happened, it turned out there were 9 colored spirals around the center one but Elayne hadn't consciously planned it that way.

8. The painted gold glitter background on the black makes Elayne think of the asteroid belt, but again that wasn't consciously planned.