It Started As The Helix Nebula

I was still left with one empty picture frame and was wondering what to do with it.  Then I had a great idea.  I was going to pay a visit to my father & thought I’d paint and frame something for him while I was there.  I thought I might try another painting along the lines of the Random Nebula as he’d just bought an expensive telescope to look over the night sky.  I picked the Helix Nebula (known to some as the Eye Of God) as a subject and got to work.

The mistake I made with this one was to not just sprinkle salt on the cloud but all over the painting.  It’s given the painting some strange streaky looking starry effects as if someone with a shaky hand has taken a photo.

I’m don’t know whether I’d have framed this one if I’d not already decided to gift it.  But frame it I did and it was on my father’s wall for his last few years.  After his death in 2022, the painting was taken away as part of the house clearance and is probably now up for sale in a charity shop somewhere.