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The Dream of Space
This artwork ‘The Dream of Space’ has been inspired by a fascination of space and time. This charcoal and acrylic painting on fine art ready to hang canvas is an expression of thought and emotion in fine art realism, expressionism, abstract and street art styles. Charcoal provides the representational structure for the young girl unzipping the vision within her mind, using a unique and also made up technique with paint brush and charcoal dust. Acrylic paint of blue, green and tan, ochre and brown were applied to create a realistic looking Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and other planets. Oil paint in white added for highlights throughout.
This artwork is a ready to hang fine art 4cm thick stretched canvas with 5 layers of soft white gesso painted. Sealed with high quality charcoal and acrylic fixatives. Includes a signed certificate of authenticity. Signed on the front with art ink. Dated and signed on the back and also framing wire added before shipping. Main photos are professional and also some close up photos on iphone.
Additional Artwork Information
All of Ashvin Harrison’s realistic artworks are inspired by real life posing people and nature, photographs or imagination. Also, all artworks have a charcoal element to them. This painting, like most pieces, is a mixture of acrylics, acrylic medium thinners, acrylic medium flows and also mixing additives with charcoal dust paint.
Please contact me if you would like to see more photos or seek more information about this artwork. Ashvin can create on different size formats from A3 artworks to large ready to hang artworks of 183cm (72″). Also, Ashvin offers super sized rolled canvas artworks up to 280cm. Ashvin Harrison has been creating art full-time since 2017 with over 250 artworks created annually.
Once Your Artwork Arrives
Most of Ashvin Harrison’s paintings arrive ready to hang and also will state such information next to each artwork page. The gallery recommends placing your artwork in a well lit room away from direct sunlight. The ready to hang artworks look great without a frame, though a floating frame can always compliment the look. The Singulart gallery suggests a plain white or charcoal black floating frame. If you would like more information, feel free to seek advice from Ashvin Harrison’s art advisor via email on the contact page.
Shipping and Taxes of Art
All artworks include free shipping worldwide. No matter the size or the region from Bora-Bora to Stockholm, Singulart Gallery ensure every artwork arrives in a timely manner. All artworks are insured with tracking to the door. Singulart also cover all your import taxes! Yes, no hidden fees or additional expenses! All you have to do is decide where to place your new artwork to enjoy. Ashvin’s logistic manager uses TNT or DHL in Australia, DHL and Fed-Ex worldwide and sometimes UPS in places like Russia, China and Kenya. Singulart ensures all artworks are packaged to the highest standard with custom made packaging created just for the artworks. Harrison’s art has shipped to over 40 countries worldwide and well over 100 cities since 2017.
Ashvin Harrison Wall Art Prints
Ashvin Harrison’s artworks are available as prints from over 20 authorised print companies worldwide. To view the authorised company list, click here. Below is a list of the art print companies you can buy this particular print from. Framed prints, ready to hang canvas prints, bedding covers, pillow covers, apparel, bags, phone covers and cases, furniture and much more is available. Well over 100,000 prints have been sold and shipped worldwide by the affiliated print companies since 2017. Please contact the company directing regarding any orders.
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Outer Space Scratch Art:
This fun favourite will have your kids busy for ages. Kids may get a little impatient while waiting for the paint to dry, so it might be a good idea to space this activity across two days.
Materials:1 x A4 white cardWarm & cool oil pastelsBlack acrylic paintBrush or spongeSharp pencil or wooden skewerA4 scrap paperPencil
Colour in your A4 card with warm and cool oil pastels. Make sure no white card shows through, and the oil pastels are applied thickly.
Paint over the oil pastels with black acrylic paint. Make sure you have a even covering of paint and you can’t see too much of the oil pastel colour anymore.
Leave to dry. It may take a few hours.
While the paint dries, get your child to draw a rough picture on A4 paper of what they’d like to have in their outer space picture. Remind them that they can’t rub out any lines they do into the scratch artwork.
Once the paint has dried. Scratch a border around the edge of the artwork with the wooden skewer or sharp pencil. Then draw your rocket ship, planets, stars, aliens etc. onto your page. Gently shake off the scratchings, don’t brush them with your hands.
Enjoy creating this fun art piece!
Space art celebrates the past and future of cosmic exploration
A couple hiking in the Shamshu region of Jupiter’s moon Io watches as a lava geyser sputters to life beyond the distant hills. Amazing vistas of cliffs and jumbled terrain colored by sulfur compounds stretch before the space tourists, who wear futuristic radiation-proof suits.
Marilynn Flynn
For as long as the dream of human spaceflight has existed, artists have been inspired to imagine and depict what such amazing journeys might look like. Before the age of modern photography, explorers were frequently accompanied by artists who created drawings and paintings of the unknown regions of the world to delight and inspire the public. This trend has continued as the space artists of today work with the global astronomy community to create inspirational visions of space exploration.
Emanation, Digital
The Moon. Mars. Jupiter. Saturn. Each world calls to us, begging us to explore the wonders that await. We will become cosmic explorers. But even as we extend our reach, we will always hold our origin close to our hearts.
Adrianna Allen
The modern era of space art began after World War II. Rapid progress in aviation, rocketry, atomic energy, and other technical advances made the development of spacecraft seem tangible. The U.S. emerged from WWII as a global superpower with enormous technical and industrial capacity. At the same time, science fiction stories focused on space adventures increased in popularity. Human spaceflight appeared to be just around the corner and space artists such as Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986) played an important role in making space travel appear real to the public. Bonestell’s paintings exhibited a startling realism, making it easy to believe they represented an actual glimpse of humanity’s spacefaring future.
Following the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik in 1957, space art was strongly influenced by humanity’s rapidly expanding efforts to explore space. The space race between the USSR and the U.S. culminated in the Apollo lunar landings from 1969 to 1972. During this exciting time, there appeared to be no limits to what humanity could accomplish in space. Seeing the success of the American space program, aerospace companies commissioned space art to promote bold visions of robust human exploration throughout the solar system.
But after the Moon landings, the pace of human space exploration slowed considerably. In the 1980s, NASA’s space shuttle flew for the first time, enabling limited human activity in space to crewed operations in low Earth orbit (LEO). These efforts ultimately led to the establishment of the International Space Station (ISS).
Exploring Enceladus, Acrylic/digital
Future explorers drill through the ice to explore the global seas of Enceladus. Here, a pressure dome keeps water from erupting into the vacuum of space as an astronaut digs for the precious resource.
Michael Carroll
While the prospects for human exploration of the solar system dwindled, robotic missions expanded dramatically, with an astounding record of success. By 2022, every planet in the solar system had been visited, as well as numerous asteroids, comets, and Kuiper Belt objects. And several robot spacecraft are outbound into the depths of interstellar space, bearing messages from humanity.
Although humans have not ventured beyond LEO since the Apollo Moon landings, space visionaries persevered, aided by space artists who continued to create compelling visions of robust human spacefaring.
Today, we are experiencing an exciting Second Golden Age of space exploration with the rise of commercial spaceflight operations by a variety of private companies. NASA is now developing new launch vehicles and spacecraft for human space operations beyond LEO. Ambitious plans are being created for human exploration on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The road ahead remains challenging, but humanity is moving forward, and space artists are helping to show the way.
Space art encompasses a wide variety of subject matter, but a significant portion of it focuses on envisioning how humans travel, explore, live, and work in space. This kind of art usually contains depictions of spacecraft, astronauts, satellites, space stations, habitats, and the associated hardware involved in human spacefaring.
While there are a variety of artistic styles that can be employed, many of the artists attracted to the demanding world of space exploration are realists. In other words, their depictions are representational and realistic. Many space artists choose to adopt a traditional “painterly” style, where the brushstrokes are quite visible, yet the resulting image is immediately recognizable. Furthermore, realists generally aim to convey their subject matter in a compelling and believable manner. Photographic realism is merely one method of attaining this goal, while other artists might choose a much more abstract approach.
Gemini IV Spacewalk, Oil
Astronaut Ed White performs America’s first spacewalk, secured to the spacecraft with an umbilical line. Shaved samples from some of the pieces of silver that astronaut Jim McDivitt carried with him on the Gemini 4 Mission have been mixed into the oil paint for White’s space suit and cord.
Chris Calle
The realist space artist must master a variety of skills to create convincing renditions of human space exploration. These skills include perspective and mechanical drawing techniques, a grasp of basic engineering principles, and the ability to create effective astronomical backdrops for the scene. All these are combined using artistic insight to create art that is aesthetically pleasing as well as technically plausible.
Family, Acrylic
Sojourner, the Mars Pathfinder rover named after former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, receives a visit by a descendant of its namesake, many years after its mission’s end.
Pat Rawlings
The use of traditional media is alive and well in the world of space art. Artists use a wide array of tools such as pencils, pens, markers, and paint to create their visions. However, a significant portion of space art has moved into the digital realm, especially for those artists who specialize in depicting hardware. Since real-world hardware is now designed using 3D computer-aided models and virtual reality tools, it’s only natural that artists should follow suit. The rapid development and commercial availability of those powerful tools has enabled many new possibilities for space artists. Even when creating artwork using traditional hand-painting techniques, 3D modeling and rendering can provide excellent reference imagery to ensure that the scene perspective and lighting are correct for a given view.
TETHERHAB 2021, Digital
A rotating tethered habitat orbits above an Earth-like world. Using solar panels for power, the station is capable of housing 100 people in a variable-gravity environment. A spacecraft at lower left is returning from an exploratory mission to the surface of the planet.
Mark Maxwell
Space art is frequently used to accurately document significant events in aerospace history. It is extensively used by the global aerospace industry to illustrate and explain complex spacecraft design and mission proposals. Compelling art influences investors and the public and helps fund the project. After all, the best space art always manages to convey a sense of wonder and the impending adventure that awaits humanity as we set sail upon the vast ocean of space. — Aldo Spadoni
The High Frontier, Acrylic
A space colony family gazes at farmland in the end cap of an O’Neill cylinder — two counter-rotating cylinders. The windows around the farmland show space outside, while community buildings sit in the foreground.
Peter Thorpe
Sunset on Mars, Oil
Newly arrived Terrans settle down to view their first sunset on Mars. The Sun is a welcome reminder of home as it breaks through the dusty sky, revealing a blue-tinged sunset.
Jusmena Fonseca
Mars Station, Digital
An astronaut walks between two stations on the martian moon Phobos. Meanwhile, a spacecraft leaves the base for a Mars surface mission.
Steven Hobbs
Foot of the Ladder, Graphite pencil
On July 20, 1969, at 2:55 A.M. UTC, Neil Armstrong reported, “I’m at the foot of the ladder.” He is once again on the ladder in this artist’s concept. In just a few seconds’ time, Armstrong will become the first human to set foot on the Moon.
Doug Forrest
Defiance, Oil
First debuting in 1966, the Soyuz rockets have become the most frequently used launch vehicles in the world. The mighty rocket leaves Earth for space in another bone-shaking defiance of gravity.
Priscilla Thomas
Artemis, Sister of Apollo, Acrylic
As she collects lunar samples near a conceptual lander, the next human to step on the Moon pioneers a new phase of exploration. A half-century after the Apollo era of heavy, cumbersome spacesuits, new materials and engineering have enabled more flexibility, endurance, and comfort.
Mark Pestana
HOPE VASIMR at Jupiter, Digital
HOPE (Human Outer Planet Exploration) is a design for a vehicle that could take humanity to the Jupiter system. The crew live between the craft’s rotating liquid hydrogen tanks, which provide radiation shielding.
