Mercury

Great stuff! I'm a real sucker for space and sci-fi paintings and this one is just great. One knows immediately we're not on Earth, but neither on the moon.
Craters, tornado and glowing sun are all well painted and placed in that starry background, with a hint of Milky way!
SUPER!!

Thank you Voy, it took a while to figure out what color plasma is. I decided to go with purple instead of orange. What do you think it would be?
I like that I managed to keep tonal work good enough and land progresses from light to dark.
I am getting ready for the next one. I need to prime second layer on the another MDF.

The darkened craters go very well with the purple, so you made a good choice there. If the environment was lighter, you can switch to orange moods. Orange is more space natural then red would be, so that would go very well!
Anxiously awaiting that new project of yours!!!!

Very cool! I especially like the extra-bright highlights on the crater edges. This comes off as very realistic because the viewer would presume we're in a place with a thinner atmosphere than earth...but then you see the tornado and it cracks open a whole host of narrative possibilities. Very creative and well-executed!

Thank you Dracula! I think about the next one but not stuck with compositional challenge. I wonder how it turns out. I cannot even figure out of it needs to be vertical or horizontal...

I am really looking forward to seeing what you come up with! :)

My lord is this painting "out of the world". The landscape is amazing, the sky and moonlight fabulous and how in the world did you get the tornado to look so good????

Very nice job.

It has a lovely feeling of being in space! The sky and craters are great! Tornado is a nice element as well!

@ MHK - thank you very much. Voy helped me to define sky color for the planet without atmosphere. Also one of Voy's paintings contained the brushstroke that I thought will help in the great tornado. Then I did underpainting with purple, no liquid white, just liquid purple. Next was fan brush and lightened pink highlight. Pink is made from purple-red. Very special pigment not AC or CadRed. Then I realized it is too rigid and added extra width without fully covering black sky to create transparency. Pink from one side and bluish from the other. Couple of streaks to add extra volume to that dust with liner brush. Dust on the land is with light purple with fan brush exactly how Bob taught us to make clouds. Ta-da-ta tornado is ready.
Also it took a bit of research on internet and help of my husband to define color of plasma color as this is plasma tornado, they happen on Mercury due to magnetic storms and solar wind and sun is raising there to start new day.
I read NASA website to get things more or less I think they will look like if anyone lands there on the first planet from the sun.

@Lzicchinella-thank you! This was the purpose and I am glad I achieved it! There were serious questions to answer when I was working on the best composition and color selections, and tornado in fact appeared the last as it would be boring without it.
I am very glad I took you and other members to far away travel with me.

The image of Mercury I have is a scorching star, but it's a cool image. It's an interesting attempt.

Thanks Jin. Yes indeed it was interesting as none of the human beings know exactly what it is like there. NASA website was helpful and a lot of artistic license used in this one.

What I realized that stones without trees, water and sky are quite boring, but as you said it is an interesting experience.