About This Artwork
Created with a wet-on-wet acrylic painting as a basis, this is a mixed-media work combining 2 paintings and layers of overlaid vector penwork with the Pierre Bezier tool in Fireworks. 61 layers altogether.

This work has been rattling around on my hard drive for some time, and the ultimate form of it was finally catalyzed by a recent press announcement that scientists are back to the drawing board about where the earth’s atmosphere and oceans came from.

Well, well.

The theory always was that the earth’s oceans and atmosphere came from gases and minerals locked inside the earth’s crust and released through volcanic acitvity. The University of Manchester in Britain has now extracted a meteorite signature in volcanic gases that shows volcanic activity cannot have contributed to the earth’s atmosphere in any significant way.

The new scientific assumption is that the earth’s atmosphere and oceans “came from outer space.” Hallelujah.

In the words of the Psalmist:
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

For artwork with the words of the Psalmist at the bottom, Click HERE