Painted completely within Inkscape - May 2026

Printed on Red River Paper’s Palo Duro 315

Images from the Hubble and James Webb Telescopes continue to stimulate my imagination.

Rather than copying the photographs, I used them as inspiration to create abstractions.

This one started with a huge spiral universe with many spiral galaxies within.

I thought about create an abstraction based on spiral ideas - and came up with Astroscape #10.

The space telescope photographs provide a starting stimulus.

I do not replicate what is in the images.

Their designs and colors are a starting point for my imagination.

After developing the spiral shapes, I felt it was lacking something.

I happened across an image of Wassily Kandinsky’s Couple on Horseback - which is a beautiful painting.

There were beautiful color accents - and I thought this might be a nice way to represent the stars within a galaxy.

After creating the art in vector graphics, an output file is generated that can be printed.

The vector program creates an output file in a very high definition - computing every pixel that will be printed.

Because of the complexity of the above, this takes my high-speed computer over 10 hours to create the output file.

Afterwards, I check the output file for any imperfections or oversights.

Then I make changes at the vector graphic level and recreate the output file.

This is repeated until everything appears correct.

Prototype prints are then created.

It takes days until the final print is made.

A single print, what I call a monoprint, was created: 1 print on cotton archival paper - 36" height x 24" wide

Digital prints and larger sizes are available - contact me for more information.