77 Skies for Armstrong (8-27-12 7:38 AM)

77 Skies for Armstrong (8-27-12 7:38 AM)
9 x 6"
mixed media on paper
Marius Black
2012

 

There came a time when I was feeling down and I wasn't sure where my art and myself was really going. I couldn't remember specifically what I was in to at the time, all I can remember is when I was making these I was a bit lonely. 

But art never leaves you, it was always my companion. Like the moon and the night's sky, always there when I look at them, always there even when I don't.

At the time Niel Armstrong passed away, so I decided to paint the skies for him honoring his death. Painting the trees and the posts that came with it. And of course, the moon.

I was also trying out gouache for the first time and used it like acrylics and found them quite beautiful to use. I used them to express the solemness of the sky and used acrylics to express the trees and leaves that sway by. I painted them all on paper running the whole sketch pad out and just making sky painting after sky painting. I was trying not to do anything destructive to anyone especially to myself, so I painted. I painted seventy-seven skies for Armstrong.