Venus

You are really out of this world lately. Love the colors, clouds are awesome and lighting bolt spot on!

Venus never looked better then on yellow acryl!
I waited hours to comment on this to let it sink in for a while. As an astronomer, I would raise my eyebrows but here, I know I need to be thinking as an artist, an art lover, an observant spectator.
This painting has a lot in it, mystery behind those rocks and hills, action with the lightning and its wonderfully painted impact on the surface, wonder since those colours are out of this world, (as MHK also stated!), adventure since the scenery just screams to be explored! And I could go on, and on, and on ...
Yet another jewel from you Sunnylady! Mars will be jealous!!

That lightning is spectacular! Love the sky color!

Hi Voy, thanks for your feedback. I bet it is a bit shocking with all your knowledge about the space. Tell me more about Venus from astronomical point of view please. I read NASA Venus in depth and was thinking how to implement orange rocks and atmosphere and have it look separated from the sky. Another fun question I faced - what would be shadows on Venus - will they be purple or green. This was a challenge, but i wanted somehow it to be a bit real...Ahaha like I know how it would look like I am sure there are numerous simulations that space agencies workers would only posses...
I was thinking if an astronaut in the different atmosphere what the light bolt would like may be it would be green or red or even purple? I even read a lot about fulgurites and searched the photos of the impacts from the lightnings. (here I got a bot overboard in this painting), but who knows how it would look like in real on Venus. Another interesting thing that I read was that Venus has valleys, mountains and many volcanoes ( I decided to omit volcanoes as it would make it more busier than it is).

I used Indian yellow for the sky as this is warmest yellow I have.
For browns and grays I used mixtures of Cad Orange, BS, VDB, Payne's gray and TW to vary the values.
I wish photo could be better, but MDF pattern, phone and compression process from the site make their bad business.

Overall it was a fun challenge to me, but so far planets are a bit boring as there is no vegetation to make it more interesting. Stones certainly do not cause that feeling like happy trees would. I intend to skip Mars with other planets and only do Saturn and Europa.

Can you guide me to some source of the information to read more?

@MHK - I decided to relax a bit and paint something easy and fantastic a bit. I plan to do two more for the Solar system as I have 5 more litres of yellow acrylic paint and few more meters of MDF. :)
The next after that will be 3 weeks challenging project study after Aivazovsky with glazing techniques...( this is inspiring and scary at the same time) and I need to figure out how to make device to copy from the phone screen to the canvas and enlarge it at the same time. Composition is essential there.

Wow, quite a bit of info Sunnylady! Will take this with me and be back on that later! I'm just about to start a new BR painting (black seascape) and afterwards I need to work in the garden.
Till later, have a great day!!

@MHK - Thanks for your kind words about this creation!

@PaintRML - thank you! It is my first lightning bolt ever, the same as iI had first tornado on Mercury and I think many first things to come in my next paintings. But I am up to for the challenge and for trying new things!